“ When a person is down in the world, an ounce of help is better than a pound of preaching. ”
- Edward Bulwer Lytton- Copy
- 2.5K
“ I do a bale of sketches, one eye, a piece of hair. A pound of observation, then an ounce of painting. ”
- Gardner Cox- Copy
- 3.1K
“ Out there in the spotlight you're a million miles away and every ounce of energy you try to give away as the sweat pours out your body like the music that you play. ”
- Jon English- Copy
- 3.1K
“ Oh, trouble's a ton, or a trouble's an ounce, Or a trouble is what you make it. And it isn't the fact that you're hurt that counts, But only how did you take it. ”
- E. V. Cooke- Copy
- 890
“ When you sell a man a book you don't sell him just 12 ounces of paper and ink and glue-you sell him a whole new life. ”
- Christopher Morley- Copy
- 1.2K
“ We must all suffer from one of two pains: the pain of discipline or the pain of regret. The difference is discipline weighs ounces while regret weighs tons. ”
- Jim Rohn- Copy
- 3.2K
“ He had not an ounce of superfluous flesh on his bones, and leanness goes a great way towards gentility. ”
- Elizabeth Gaskell- Copy
- 1.6K
“ Beware you be not swallowed up in books! An ounce of love is worth a pound of knowledge. ”
- John Wesley- Copy
- 2K
“ Only a man who knows what it is like to be defeated can reach down to the bottom of his soul and come up with the extra ounce of power it takes to win when the match is even. ”
- Muhammad Ali- Copy
- 3K
“ An ounce of cheerfulness is worth a pound of sadness to serve God with. ”
- Thomas Fuller- Copy
- 2.2K
“ One man scorned and covered with scars still strove with his last ounce of courage to reach the unreachable stars; and the world will be better for this. ”
- Cervantes- Copy
- 301
“ Isn't that the problem? That women have been swindled for centuries into substituting adornment for love, fashion for passion? All the cosmetics names seemed obscenely obvious to me in their promises of sexual bliss. They were all firming or uplifting or invigorating… ”
- Erica Jong- Copy
- 3.5K
“ Who's kidding whom? What's the difference between Giant and Jumbo? Quart and full quart? Two-ounce and big two-ounce? What does Extra Long mean? What's a tall 24-inches? And what busy shopper can tell? ”
- Marya Mannes- Copy
- 2.2K
“ New Scientist magazine reported that in the future, cars could be powered by hazelnuts. That's encouraging, considering an eight-ounce jar of hazelnuts costs about nine dollars. Yeah, I've got an idea for a car that runs on bald eagle heads and Faberge eggs. ”
- Jimmy Fallon- Copy
- 616
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