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«If we moms can push 9 pound babies through our bodies, some of them with heads as big as bowling balls, surely we can push legislation through the halls of Congress.»
Author: Donna Dees-Thomases | Keywords: babies, balls, bowling, bowling ball, halls, legislation, moms, pound
«A pound of pluck is worth a ton of luck.»
Author: James A. Garfield (President) | About: Courage, Luck | Keywords: pluck, pound, ton
«Beware you be not swallowed up in books! An ounce of love is worth a pound of knowledge»
Author: John Wesley (Evangelist) | Keywords: beware, book of knowledge, In books, ounce, ounces, pound, pounded, pounding, swallowed
«An ounce of wit is worth a pound of argument»
Author: Sydney Smith (Clergyman, Essayist, Wit) | Keywords: argument, ounce, ounces, pound, wit
«Better an ounce of luck than a pound of gold.»
Author: Yiddish Proverb | About: Luck | Keywords: ounce, pound
«He that will not stoop for a pin will never be worth a pound»
Author: English Proverb | Keywords: pin, pound, stoop
«Experience was to be taken as showing that one might get a five-pound note as one got a light for a cigarette; but one had to check the friendly impulse to ask for it in the same way.»
Author: Henry James | Keywords: ask for it, five pound, One Pound, pound
«A pinch of probability is worth a pound of perhaps»
Author: James Thurber (Writer) | Keywords: in all probability, pinch, pinched, pinches, pinching, pound, probability
«Failure, then, failure! so the world stamps us at every turn. We strew it with our blunders, our misdeeds, our lost opportunities, with all the memorials of our inadequacy to our vocation. And with what a damning emphasis does it then blot us out! No easy fine, no mere apology or formal expiation, will satisfy the world's demands, but every pound of flesh exacted is soaked with all its blood. The subtlest forms of suffering known to man are connected with the poisonous humiliations incidental to these results.»
Author: William James (Philosopher, Psychologist) | Keywords: apology, blot, blunders, connected, damning, emphasis, exacted, expiation, formal, humiliations, inadequacies, inadequacy, incidental, incidental to, memorials, poisonous, pound, soaked, stamps, strew, subtlest, vocation
«A pinch of praise is worth a pound of scorn. A dash of encouragement is more helpful than a dipper of pessimism. A cup of kindness is better than a cupboard of criticism.»
Author: William Arthur Ward | Keywords: criticism, cup, cupboard, cupboards, dash, dashed, dashing, dipper, encouragement, helpful, pessimism, pinch, pinched, pinches, pinching, pound, pounding, scorn, scorning
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