(241 quotes found)
“The injuries we do and those we suffer are seldom weighed in the same scales”
Aesop
“'Tis best to weigh The enemy more mighty than he seems”
William Shakespeare
“There isn't a wife in the world who has not taken the exact measure of her husband, weighed him and settled him in her own mind, and knows him as well as if she had ordered him after designs and specifications of her own.”
Charles Dudley Warner
“UNIVAC: a device, which contained 20,000 vacuum tubes, occupied 1,500 square feet and weighed 40 tons; there was also a laptop version weighing 27 tons.”
Dave Barry
“I never wanted to weigh more heavily on a man than a bird.”
Coco Chanel
“Life should be like the precious metals, weigh much in little bulk”
Seneca
“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.”
“We are weighed down, every moment, by the conception and the sensation of time. And there are but two means of escaping and forgetting this nightmare: pleasure and work. Pleasure consumes us. Work strengthens us. Let us choose.”
Charles Baudelaire
“O sleep, O gentle sleep, nature's soft nurse, how have I frightened thee, that thou no more wilt weigh my eye-lids down and steep my senses in forgetfulness?”
“W called me 'the young Delta Burke.' It's so silly. I weigh 105 pounds and wear a size two, but for some reason I'm a heavyweight.”
Christina Ricci
