A Quote by Evan Esar
The trouble with dieting is that a pound of will power takes off only an ounce of weight.
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God does not weigh criminality in our scales. We have one absolute, with the seal of authority upon it; and with us an ounce is an ounce, and a pound a pound. God's measure is the heart of the offender,--a balance which varies with every one of us, a balance so delicate that a tear cast in the other side may make the weight of error kick the beam.
Success goes thus invariably with a certain plus or positive power: an ounce of power must balance an ounce of weight.
If your rod weighs six ounces, your reel nine, and your line another ounce or two, it means that you are holding a pound of weight in your casting hand - much of the time at arm's length - all the time you fish. Try carrying a pound of butter around that way for four or five hours.
Oh, a 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.
They call Ray Robinson the best fighter, pound for pound. I'm the best fighter, ounce for ounce.
The Brain is just the weight of God--
For--Heft them--Pound for Pound--
And they will differ--if they do--
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The Diet Mentality has come about because there is agreement in our society that the only way to lose weight is by dieting. But dieting produces absolutely no permanent, positive results. In fact, it makes you feel worse about yourself and probably does more damage than good to your health.
An ounce of courage will go farther with women than a pound of timidity.
My uncle was famous for his balanced point of view. At the time of which I am writing (when he was nearly seventy) it had become so balanced, that the act of balancing seemed rather automatic.One had only to offer him an opinion for him to balance it with a counter- opinion of exactly the same weight, as a grocer puts a pound weight against a pound of sugar.
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.
A 20-pound weight on the back of a small horse is more damaging than a 20-pound weight on a very big horse.
Will power is only the tensile strength of one's own disposition. One cannot increase it by a single ounce.
I hate cutting weight. I hate making weight. I hate dieting. But I'm going to make this weight. I can't wait to do that when I step on them scales.
When the vain speaker has sat down, and the people say 'what a good speech,' it still takes an ounce to balance an ounce.
After 14 years of dieting, there are only two things I've never lost. Hope and weight.
I think a colony in space will take much longer than sci fiction writers think. It costs $10,000 to put a pound of anything into near earth orbit. That is your weight in gold. It costs about $100,000 a pound to put you on the moon. And it costs $1,000,000 a pound to put you on Mars.
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