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An ounce of convention is worth a pound of explanation. — Ethel Mumford

Staring at Joey's eyes blinking up from his pale face was a bit like inhaling a pound of rock candy while watching puppies play. — K.A. Mitchell

An ounce of prevention is better than a pound of cure. — Osama Bin Laden

All things are a-flowing,' sage Heraclitus says, but a tawdry cheapness shall outlast all days. — Ezra Pound

The purpose is to become the best writer in my category (yes, page for page and pound for pound). — Georges St-Pierre

Take a nap
Making the mountain water
Pound the rice. — Kobayashi Issa

I don't know if I'm the best Pound-For-Pound fighter ever. I know I'm close. I gotta be Top 5. — Roy Jones Jr.

I could throw 56-pound words clear across the Grand Canyon. As a matter of course, I went into politics. — Henry F. Ashurst

They call Ray Robinson the best fighter, pound for pound. I'm the best fighter, ounce for ounce. — Willie Pep

History says that I'm one of the best pound-for-pound, and I won't stop until I'm number one. — Sergio Martinez

A pound of Alaskan king crab legs and buffalo shrimp = happy Travie. — Travie McCoy

An ounce of wisdom can prevent a pound of folly. — Matshona Dhliwayo

But the last few years had taught me that one of my grandmother's favorite sayings was true. An ounce of prevention was worth a pound of cure. — Charlaine Harris

I saw ... a kid on a leash. You seen these people? Kid on a leash? How horrible. Put him in the pound where he belongs. — Bill Hicks

Did you know that, pound for pound, the moose is the leanest ruminant on Earth? It's true. Moose are very in tune with their natural surroundings. — Mallory Ortberg

You have made Commerce a god that weighs on humanity like a twenty-four-pound boil on a man's back (117-118) — Walter Mosley

For me, I'd rather be the inventive one, and if something doesn't work, I'll go back to the workshop, put it on the bench, and pound on it for awhile. — Janet Fitch

Get the hell away from us before i go find my hammer and pound some sense into that gaping hole between your ears — Kristen Middleton

The 800 pound gorilla just entered the blogosphere, with Google launching its blog search. — Charlene Li

One has not lived until one has carried a sixty-pound dog down a sweeping flight of stairs at half-past V in the morning. — Connie Willis

An eight-pound Cheddar. No one can resist a bit of Cheddar cheese, ma'am. Not even the dead. — Julia Stuart

A pound of pluck is worth a ton of luck. — James A. Garfield

So it's all good to go. Pound away, man! — Sophie Oak

If put to the pinch, an ounce of loyalty is worth a pound of cleverness.
(Get Out or Get in Line, 1928) — Elbert Hubbard

Better see rightly on a pound a week than squint on a million. — George Bernard Shaw

Here she was with a vampire. A horror icon. A six-foot-eight, 280-pound horror icon with a set of teeth on him like a Doberman pinscher. — J.R. Ward

I learned the tyranny of figures before I knew the value of a pound. — Beryl Markham

I get my sticks and go out to the shed, and I pound on that drum like it was my boss's head. — Todd Rundgren

If Parliament may take from me one shilling in the pound, what security have I for the other nineteen? — Richard Henry Lee

When I gain a pound it's in the headlines. — Kim Kardashian

Every pound of muscle burns approximately 50 calories every day, just doing nothing. — Jorge Cruise

Man is an over-complicated organism. If he is doomed to extinction he will die out for want of simplicity. — Ezra Pound

A FRIGHTENED, ANGRY, FOUR-HUNDRED-POUND, antisocial chef with a combat shotgun never leads to anything good. — Dean Koontz

When I was 14 I would pick up my brother's bass guitar, and I would just pound on it, having no idea how to play it. — Steve Burns

Jury lawlessness is the greatest corrective of law in its actual administration. — Roscoe Pound

I put my money on Brexit. The EU Financial Stability Commissioner, Jonathan Hill from Britain, still owes me a pound. — Jean-Claude Juncker

I have never known anyone worth a damn who wasn't irascible. — Ezra Pound

You don't have to pound your head after hearing a country song and wonder if you missed something. — Annette Funicello

Don't be blinded by the theorists and a lying press. — Ezra Pound

I once heard her tell a friend that she was, in fact, a 120-pound woman, but she kept herself wrapped in fat in order to prevent bruising. — Haven Kimmel

No verse is libre for the man who wants to do a good job. — Ezra Pound

Why did I follow her? If you must know, Sir, it was easy. Pound for pound, Puss-in-Boots was the best commander I ever served under. — L.A. Meyer

Religion, oh, just another of those numerous failures resulting from an attempt to popularize art. — Ezra Pound

I need to pick up some lingerie," I told them. "What for?" asked Trey. "To make you feel pretty, Pound Cake," I retorted. "The fuck you think? — Kelli Jean

But I am like the grass, I can not love you. — Ezra Pound

The only thing one can give an artist is leisure in which to work. To give an artist leisure is actually to take part in his creation. — Ezra Pound

If I could believe the Quakers banned music because church music is so damn bad, I should view them with approval. — Ezra Pound

If the Scottish people decide to opt for independence, it would not be a good idea for Scotland to maintain a very rigid link to the pound. — Mohamed El-Erian

I always look skint. When I buy a Big Issue, people take it out of my hand and give me a pound. — Billy Connolly

The name's Pepper like the spray, so I guess you wouldn't want me in your face! — Mike Ferris

One of life's great truths is this: when one is about to be struck by a speeding six-hundred pound Coke machine, one need worry about little else. — Stephen King

Oh, a bookshop. Why not pop in and buy a little Kant? And perhaps just a quarter-pound of Kafka. Don't bother to wrap it, thanks. I'll eat it here. — Frederick Busch

Whether I pound or am being pounded, all the same there will be moaning! — Henrik Ibsen

Technique is the test of sincerity. If a thing isn't worth getting the technique to say, it is of inferior value. — Ezra Pound

I AM homesick after mine own kind,
Oh I know that there are folk about me,
friendly faces,
But I am homesick after mine own kind. — Ezra Pound

A man of genius has a right to any mode of expression. — Ezra Pound

No ifs, no buts - we will not share the pound if Scotland separates from the U.K. — George Osborne

She was never so petty. She did not dabble with minnows at the surface when there were thirty-pound salmon swimming deeper down. — Elizabeth Wein

[...] one louing howre
For many yeares of sorrow can dispence:
A dram of sweet is worth a pound of sowre — Edmund Spenser

Let the two cross-tops and junk gin and four no-filter Camels make your heart pound. — Amanda Boyden

Colloquial poetry is to the real art as the barber's wax dummy is to sculpture. — Ezra Pound

Listen to me, attend me!
And I will breathe into thee a soul,
And thou shalt live for ever. — Ezra Pound

Allow me to say that I would long since have committed suicide had desisting made me a professor of Latin. — Ezra Pound

All men were liars and he was no doubt no different - only one tongue and more tales than the dog pound. — Richard Flanagan

What thou lovest well remains,
the rest is dross
What thou lov'st well shall not be reft from thee
What thou lov'st well is thy true heritage — Ezra Pound

More writers fail from lack of character than from lack of intelligence. — Ezra Pound

An ounce of performance is worth more than a pound of preachment. — Elbert Hubbard

A crowd pagan as ever imperial Rome was, eager, careless with an animal vigor unlike that of any European crowd that I ever looked at. — Ezra Pound

You want a sheet-clawing, back-arching, mind-blowing fuck, and I want to pound my cock into you until I've come my last drop. — Sylvia Day

History is merciless. History doesn't care if we pound our society down a rat hole. It's up to us to make more intelligent choices about how we live! — James Howard Kunstler

Today, if you pay a[n US] dollar for a pound of apples in the supermarketm only about six cents covers the farmwork used to get it there; ( ... ) — Tracie McMillan

I did not enter into silence. Silence captured me. — Ezra Pound

Around the holidays, or anytime I'm going on vacation, I try to bump up my cardio or lose a pound before leaving. — Stacy Keibler

The age demanded an image Of its accelerated grimace, Something for the modern stage, Not, at any rate, an Attic grace. — Ezra Pound

As for literature It gives no man a sinecure. And no one knows, at sight, a masterpiece. And give up verse, my boy, There's nothing in it. — Ezra Pound

The only history that matters is the history we know. — Ezra Pound

There is no topicmore soporific and generally boring than the topic of Ireland as Ireland, as a nation. — Ezra Pound

A general loathing of a gang or sect usually has some sound basis in instinct. — Ezra Pound

Sumer is icumen in,
Lhude sing cucc.
Groweth sed, and bloweth med,
And springth the wude nu,
Sing cuccu! — Ezra Pound

One of life's little mysteries is how a two-pound box of chocolate can make a person gain five pounds. M — Jill Shalvis

All great art is born of the metropolis. — Ezra Pound

And in the mean time my songs will travel,
And the devirginated young ladies will enjoy them
when they have got over the strangeness — Ezra Pound

It takes a bee 10,000,000 trips to collect enough nectar to make 1 pound of honey. — Sue Monk Kidd

They hate you when your up but they love you when your down that's why i never give a soul my last pound — Blanco Vandam

In for a penny, in for a pound. — Manda Collins

Unfortunately, the administration's plan is an ounce of cure for a pound of problems. — Charles Schumer

To define it rudely but not ineptly, engineering is the art of doing for 10 shillings what any fool can do for a pound — Duke Of Wellington

I wasn't sure exactly how prostitutes determined price, but if men bought hookers by the pound, these two would be doing okay. — Janet Evanovich

People find ideas a bore because they do not distinguish between live ones and stuffed ones on a shelf. — Ezra Pound

Pound my ass, Joe, like a good gay hick. — Anonymous

There is no reason why the same man should like the same books at eighteen and at forty-eight — Ezra Pound

Fear gripped Caelis by the throat, making his heart pound so hard he suddenly felt invincible. — Katy Huth Jones

Civilization involves subjection of force to reason, and the agency of this subjection is law. — Roscoe Pound

If love could be purchased, everybody would have paid a thousand dollars a pound for it. You know it doesn't work that way. — Harbhajan Singh Yogi

To break the pentameter, that was the first heave — Ezra Pound

To get the truth, you want to get your own heart to pound while you write. — Robert McKee

I have always thought the suicide should bump off at least one swine before taking off for parts unknown. — Ezra Pound

It takes fifteen pounds of wild fish to get you one pound of farm tuna. Not very sustainable. It doesn't taste very good either. — Dan Barber

Lester Bargus was what people liked to call 'two pounds of shit in a one-pound bag. — John Connolly

Sugar Ray Robinson was probably the greatest pound-for-pound fighter of all time. — Sugar Ray Leonard