pounds quotes

After the funeral, my father struggled through half a page, and it might as well have been Hottentott. 'And what dun they gi'e thee for that, lad?' 'Fifty pounds, father.' 'Fifty pounds!' He was dumbfounded, and looked at mewith shrewd eyes,asif I were a swindler.'Fifty pounds! An'tha's niver done a day's hard work in thy life.'

- D(avid) H(erbert) Lawrence
  Preface to Edward D McDonald (ed)  A Bibliography of D. H. Lawrence.

Take care of the pence, and the pounds will take care of themselves.

-William Lowndes
Quoted by Lord Chesterfield in a letter to his son, 5 Feb1750. In an earlier letter, 6 Nov1747, he refers to the same adage in the form'for the pounds'. English  novelist.  He  went  to  sea  as  a  young  man  and  lived  in Mexico  and Vancouver.  He  is  best  known  for  his  novel,  Under the  Volcano   (1947),   one   of   the   great   20c   explorations   of alcoholism. He died after choking in his sleep.

But whateverhisweight inpounds, shillings, and ounces, He always seems bigger because of the bounces.

- A(lan) A(lexander) Milne
  Pooh's song about Tigger. The House at Pooh Corner, ch.2.