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«And they bought an Owl, and a useful Cart,/ And a pound of Rice, and a Cranberry Tart.»
«An ounce of prevention is worth a pound of cure.»
«An ounce of hypocracy is worth a pound of ambition.»
Author: Michael Korda | About: Ambition, Hypocrisy | Keywords: ounce, pound
«[Monty] Woolley reduced the nurse in The Man Who Came to Dinner to the potency of a pound of wet Kleenex. It was probably the best thing that had happened to the art of the insult since the Medicis stopped talking in the 16th century.»
«And some of the chief of the fathers, when they came to the house of the LORD which is at Jerusalem, offered freely for the house of God to set it up in his place: / They gave after their ability unto the treasure of the work threescore and one thousand drams of gold, and five thousand pound of silver, and one hundred priests' garments.»
«And he made three hundred shields of beaten gold; three pound of gold went to one shield: and the king put them in the house of the forest of Lebanon.»
Author: Bible | Keywords: One Pound, pound, shields, three hundred
«An ounce of loyalty is worth a pound of cleverness.»
«An ounce of performance is worth more than a pound of preachment»
«An ounce of blood is worth more than a pound of friendship.»
Author: Spanish Proverb | About: Friendship | Keywords: ounce, pound
«An ounce of cheerfulness is worth a pound of sadness to serve God with»
Author: Thomas Fuller (Clergyman, Writer) | About: Sadness | Keywords: cheerfulness, ounce, pound