 So much for industry, my friends, and attention to one's own business; but to these we must add frugality if we would make our industry more certainly successful. A man may, if he knows not how to save as he gets, keep his nose all his life to the grindstone,...  Enquire Within Upon Everything - Page 113by Robert Kemp Philp - 1856 - 352 pagesFull view - About this book
 | Georgina Frederica Jackson - 1886 - 320 pages
...broth, Madam an' tay.' Shropihirc JTord-Book, av Piggin. BK. II. 1' 1> 3. Of Idleness and Luxury : ' Many estates are spent in getting Since women for tea forsook spinning and knitting, And men for their beer forsook hewing and splitting.' Chirbury. (See Hazlitt's Proverbt.) 4. Of Hours of Sleep... | |
 | Mary Edwards Calhoun, Emma Leonora MacAlarney - American literature - 1915 - 670 pages
...may, if he knows not how to save as he gets, keep his nose all his life to the grindstone, and die not worth a groat at last. A fat kitchen makes a lean will ; and Many estates are spent in the getting, Since women forsook spinning and knitting, And men for punch forsook hewing and splitting.... | |
 | George Rice Carpenter - American prose literature - 1916 - 798 pages
...may, if he knows not how to save as he gets, keep his Nose all his Life to the Grindstone, and die not worth a Groat at last. A fat Kitchen makes a lean Will, as Poor Richard says; and Many Estates are spent in the Getting, Since Women for Tea forsook Spinning... | |
 | Walter Cochrane Bronson - American prose literature - 1916 - 760 pages
...may, if he knows not how to save as he gets, keep his Nose all his Life to the Grindstone, and die not worth a Groat at last. A fat Kitchen makes a lean Will, as Poor Richard says; and Many Estates are spent in the Getting, Since Women for Tea forsook Spinning... | |
 | Benjamin Franklin, Jonathan Edwards - American literature - 1920 - 424 pages
...Groat at last. A fat Kitchen makes a lean Witt, as Poor Richard says; and Many Estates are spent in the Getting, Since Women for Tea forsook Spinning and...Knitting, And Men for Punch forsook Hewing and Splitting. If you would be wealthy, says he, in another Almanack, think of Saving as well as of Getting: The Indies... | |
 | Robert Kemp Philp - 1861 - 794 pages
...if he knows not how to save as he gets, " keep his nose all his life to the grindstone, and die not worth a groat at last." "A fat kitchen makes a lean...knitting, And men for punch forsook hewing and splitting." " If you would be wealthy, think of saving as well as of getting. The Indies have not made Spain rich,... | |
 | Charles Herbert Sylvester - Anthologies - 1922 - 518 pages
...may," if he knows not. how to save as he goes "keep his nose all his life to the grindstone and die not worth a groat at last." "A fat kitchen makes a lean will," as Poor Richard says; and "Many estates are spent in the getting, Since women for tea 4 forsook spinning... | |
 | George Earlie Shankle - American poetry - 1926 - 162 pages
...Him that by the plow would thrive Himself must either hold or drive. Many estates are spent in the getting, Since women for tea forsook spinning and knitting, And men for punch forsook heaving and splitting.45 "Ibid., p. 173. "The Faerie Queene, The Poetical Works of Edmund Spenser,... | |
 | Robert Shafer - American literature - 1926 - 1410 pages
...may, if he knows not how to save as he gets, keep his Nose all his Life to the Grindstone, and die not g men as hopeful now crowding to the barriers for the c as Poor Richard says; and // you would be wealthy, says he, in another Almanac, think of Saving as... | |
 | William Gardiner - Conduct of life - 1927 - 328 pages
...if he knows not how to save as he gets, keep his nos-< all his life to the grindstone, and die not worth a groat at last. A fat kitchen makes a lean will, as Poor Richard says; and— Many estates are spent in the getting, Since women for tea forsook spinning... | |
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