 | Jeane Eddy Westin - Health & Fitness - 1996 - 476 pages
...overeater, self-control comes down to resisting the first bite of unneeded food. As Benjamin Franklin said, "It is easier to suppress the first desire than to satisfy all that follow it." That first extra bite is easier to stop than the binge that can follow. For today, refuse that first... | |
 | Caroline Postelle Clotfelter - Business & Economics - 1996 - 356 pages
...wealth small, and the wants great. Pride is as loud a beggar as want, and a great deal more saucy; 'tis easier to suppress the first desire, than to satisfy all that follow it. — Benjamin Franklin Pennsylvania Gazette 1732 The First Advertisement of Poor Richard's Almanac Just... | |
 | Ann Bourman - Education - 1997 - 133 pages
...certainly make it ugly. 29. Tomorrow every fault is to be amended; but that tomorrow never comes. 30. Tis easier to suppress the first desire, than to satisfy all that follow it. (D 13. Mark Twain Skills: Thinking, writing, reading, listening. Objectives: To explain in writing... | |
 | David E. Nye - Technology & Engineering - 1999 - 358 pages
...furnishings for an entire room.) Benjamin Franklin also noted this "effect" and warned against it: "When you have bought one fine thing, you must buy ten more,...appearance may be all of a piece; but Poor Dick says 'tis easier to suppress the first desire, than to satisfy all that follow it." 49 Such sermonizing,... | |
 | Benjamin Franklin - Biography & Autobiography - 1998 - 76 pages
...Sting. ' I 4> i O « <» I • Success has ruin'd many a Man. God helps them that help themselves. Tis easier to suppress the first Desire, than to satisfy all that follow it. Work as if you were to live 100 years. Pray as if you were to die To-morrow. If you do what you should... | |
 | Curtis Hutson - Religion - 2000 - 164 pages
..."The reason a certain person is so short is because the Bible says, 'The wicked shall be cut off.' " It is easier to suppress the first desire than to satisfy all that follow it. — Franklin. A gash in the conscience may disfigure a soul forever. — Spurgeon. Bad things in life... | |
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And again, Pride is as loud a beggar as want, and a great deal more saucy. When you have bought one fine thing, you must buy ten more, that your appearance may be all of a piece; but Poor Dick says, 'Tis easier to suppress the first desire than to satisfy... 
