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«Did you ever notice they never take any fat hostages? You never see a guy coming out of Lebanon going: I was held hostage for seven months and I lost 175 pounds, I feel good and I look good and I learned self-discipline. That's the important thing.»
«Down she came, 1,500 pounds of longhorn beef with a speckled red hide, 4 feet of horns and a majestically glowering look in her red-rimmed eyes.»
«I'm famous for my bottom dances, but you'll only see my bum and willy if you raise a million pounds within an hour.»
«I'm scared to death of being poor. It's like a fat girl who loses 500 pounds but is always fat inside. I grew up poor and will always feel poor inside. It's my pet paranoia.»
«Give me a dozen such heartbreaks, if that would help me lose a couple of pounds»
«And he saith unto him, Out of thine own mouth will I judge thee, thou wicked servant. Thou knewest that I was an austere man, taking up that I laid not down, and reaping that I did not sow: / Wherefore then gavest not thou my money into the bank, that at my coming I might have required mine own with usury? / And he said unto them that stood by, Take from him the pound, and give it to him that hath ten pounds.»
Author: Bible | Keywords: pounds, sow, usury
«Annual income twenty pounds, annual expenditure nineteen six, result happiness.»
«A full-grown manatee, which can weigh more than 1,000 pounds, looks like the result of a genetic experiment involving a walrus and the Goodyear Blimp.»
«An ounce of performance is worth pounds of promises.»
«Do you make a grievance of weighing so many pounds only instead of three hundred? Then why fret about living so many years only, instead of more? Since you are content with the measure of substance allowed you, be so also with the measure of time»

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