 | Steven Price - Reference - 2006 - 400 pages
...Melville Who buys a horse buys care. — Spanish proverh A little neglect may breed mischief: for want of a nail the shoe was lost,- for want of a shoe the horse was lost,- and for want of a horse the rider was lost. — Benjamin Franklin, Poor Richard's Almanac [also... | |
 | Dov M. Gabbay, John Woods - Mathematics - 2006 - 732 pages
...consequences in a very entertaining manner referring to Mother Goose [2003, p. 68 ff.]: For want of a nail the shoe was lost; For want of a shoe the horse was lost; For want of a horse the rider was lost; For want of a rider the battle was lost; For want of... | |
 | Mark A. Schneider - Social Science - 2006 - 374 pages
...but it has figured in some very sophisticated analyses of causation.19 It goes like this: For want of a nail the shoe was lost, For want of a shoe the horse was lost, For want of a horse the rider was lost, For want of a rider the battle was lost, For want of... | |
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... for want of a nail the shoe was lost; for want of a shoe the horse was lost; and for want of a horse the rider was lost... 
