Pounds quotes
264 quotes on this topic — from poets, philosophers, and thinkers across history.
"Churchill: "Madam, would you sleep with me for five million pounds?" Socialite: "My goodness, Mr. Churchill... Well, I suppose... we would have to discuss terms, of course... " Churchill: "Would you sleep with me for five pounds?" Socialite: "Mr. Churchill, what kind of woman do you think I am?!" Churchill: "Madam, we've already established that. Now we are haggling about the price"
"In two decades I've lost a total of 789 pounds. I should be hanging from a charm bracelet."
"You can have everything in the world and still be the loneliest man. And that is the most bitter type of loneliness, success has brought me world idolisation and millions of pounds. But it's prevented me from having the one thing we all need: A loving, ongoing relationship."
"I thought I had too much money to be happy and normal. Thousand of pounds is just too much for a working person to handle all of a sudden, and I felt I didnt deserve it."
"I have never known anyone worth a damn who wasn't irascible."
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"In our time, the curse is monetary illiteracy, just as inability to read plain print was the curse of earlier centuries."
"I will lose twenty pounds like... I can lose ten... I have. I can lose ten in a week and a few days."
"I'll lose about 20 pounds during the season."
"I was in the gym working on my triceps, and I was thinking, just as I did the 50-pound pulldown, I am going to be in better shape by the end of the year [2016] than I've ever been in my life. I really just smiled at the notion: Wow, what a thing."
"I guess the definition of a lunatic is a man surrounded by them."
"A pinch of probability is worth a pound of perhaps."
"It's hard to predict what will happen with two brands in a market. Sometimes they will behave in a gentlemanly way, and sometimes they'll pound each other. I know of no way to predict whether they'll compete moderately or to the death. If you could figure it out, you could make a lot of money."
"Good writers are those who keep the language efficient. That is to say, keep it accurate, keep it clear."
"Keep your jacket buttoned. Always. It's just really flattering—it will take pounds off you."
"I'm a vegan. I lost 150 pounds because of being a vegan."
"An ounce of prudence is worth a pound of cleverness."
"If put to the pinch, an ounce of loyalty is worth a pound of cleverness."
"My mother always wanted me to be glamorous. When I thought about that, it really fired me up, and once I lost all those pounds, I started to feel really good about myself."
"An ounce of image is worth a pound of performance"
"[To lose twenty pounds] is not even about how much I lose and how fast, it's so much about being healthy."
"An ounce of prevention is worth a pound of cure understated."
"Biology seems to be a chemical strategy for amplifying quantum mechanical indeterminacy so that it leaves the subatomic realm and can be present in a hundred and forty five pound block of meat."
"Remember, that six pounds a year is but a groat a day."
"Come around, feel the sound. Know you make my heart pound. Fill me up, bring me down; when I hear your sound."
"An ounce of performance is worth more than a pound of preachment."
