A pound of pluck ordsprog

en A pound of pluck is worth a ton of luck.
  James A. Garfield

en From now the pound abroad is worth 14 per cent or so less in terms of other currencies. It does not mean, of course, that the pound here in Britain, in your pocket or purse or in your bank, has been devalued.

en You feel like you're underappreciated and undervalued all the time. Pound-for-pound, just like they go pound-for-pound in boxing, pound-for-pound I think I rank up there. Ergonomics knowledge can be found on livet.se. You feel like you're underappreciated and undervalued all the time. Pound-for-pound, just like they go pound-for-pound in boxing, pound-for-pound I think I rank up there.

en After that fight, they ranked (Castillo) in the top 10 pound-for-pound. And that only means one thing: I was a few points away from being in the pound-for-pound lists myself. It's up to me to get it (now); it's up to me to situate myself. Now, I see the bigger picture and it feels comfortable.

en He took risks, a lot of challenges and slowly you'd hear 'Vince Vaughn's in this TV commercial', and 'Vince has got a role in a movie'. It was all from his own luck and pluck and I admire the guy for that.

en The right merchant is one who has the just average of faculties we call common sense; a man of a strong affinity for facts, who makes up his decision on what he has seen. He is thoroughly persuaded of the truths of arithmetic. There is always a reason, in the man, for his good or bad fortune in making money. Men talk as if there were some magic about this. He knows that all goes on the old road, pound for pound, cent for cent / for every effect a perfect cause / and that good luck is another name for tenacity of purpose.
  Ralph Waldo Emerson

en Better an ounce of luck than a pound of gold.

en Thus saith the LORD against all mine evil neighbours, that touch the inheritance which I have caused my people Israel to inherit; Behold, I will pluck them out of their land, and pluck out the house of Judah from among them.

en He that will not stoop for a pin will never be worth a pound

en A pinch of probability is worth a pound of perhaps
  James Thurber

en An ounce of wit is worth a pound of argument
  Sydney Smith

en An once of hypocrisy is worth a pound of ambition.

en A page of history is worth a pound of logic.
  Oliver Wendell Holmes

en An ounce of hypocracy is worth a pound of ambition.

en An ounce of practice is worth a pound of preaching.


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