 | William M. Thayer - Apprentices - 1861 - 304 pages
...leave that till to-morrow which you can do to-day." " Leisure is time for doing something useful." " A life of leisure and a life of laziness are two things." " Fly pleasures, and they will follow you. The diligent spinner has a large shift, and, now I have... | |
 | Elements - Success - 1862 - 246 pages
..." One to-day is worth two to-morrows." " Employ thy time well if thou meanest to gain leisure ; and since thou art not sure of a minute, throw not away an hour." He once addressed the following counsel to a young trader : — " Remember that time is money. He that... | |
 | Benjamin Franklin - 1864 - 260 pages
...thee, my friend, what pool Richard says : " Employ thy time well, if thou meanest to gain leisure; and ,since thou art not sure of a minute, throw not away...leisure the diligent man will obtain, but the lazy mat* never ; so that, as poor Richard says, " A life of leisure ana a life of laziness are two things.'*... | |
 | Great Britain. Committee on Education - Education - 1864 - 200 pages
...my friend, what Poor Eichard says : ' Employ thy time well, if thou meanest to gain leisure ; and, since thou art not sure of a minute, throw not away...useful ; this leisure the diligent man will obtain, tut the lazy man never ; for, ' A life of leisure and a life of laziness are two things.' " But with... | |
 | Apprentices - 1865 - 138 pages
...leave that till to-morrow which you can do today." " Leisure is time for doing something useful." " A life of leisure and a life of laziness are two things." " Fly pleasures, and they will follow you. The diligent spinner has a large shift, and, now I have... | |
 | William H. Ablett - Commerce - 1867 - 94 pages
...Richard says : ' Employ thy time POOR RICHARD'S ALMANAC. 63 well, if them meanest to gain leisure ; and, since thou art not sure of a minute, throw not away an hour." Leisure time is for doing something useful ; this leisure the diligent man will obtain, but the lazy man never... | |
 | Pamphilius (pseud.) - 1869 - 282 pages
...leisure ? " I will tell thee, my friend, " Employ thy time well, if thou meanest to gain leisure ; and since thou art not sure of a minute, throw not away...the diligent man will obtain, but the lazy man never ; so that " A life of leisure and a life of laziness are two things." Do you imagine that sloth will... | |
 | Ferdinand E A. Gasc - 1869 - 382 pages
...this leisure the diligent man will obtain,6 but the lazy man never ; so that, as poor Richard says, ' A life of leisure and a life of laziness are two things.' 6 Many without labour would live by their own wits only;7 but they break8 for want of stock ; whereas... | |
 | Alfred Henderson - Proverbs, Latin - 1869 - 526 pages
...— Nor has he lived in vain, who from his cradle to his grave has passed his life in seclusion. " A life of leisure, and a life of laziness, are two things." " Solitude is the nurse of wisdom." Necessarium malum. — A necessary evil. [cg, a wife.] " He that... | |
 | William Peterfield Trent, Benjamin Willis Wells - American literature - 1903 - 1042 pages
...thee, my friend, what Poor Richard says : Employ thy time well, if thou meanest to gain leisure ; and since thou art not sure of a minute, throw not away...the lazy man never ; for, A life of leisure and a lite of laziness are two things. Many, without labor, would live by their wits only, but they break... | |
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Methinks I hear some of you say, Must a Man afford himself no Leisure? I will tell thee, my friend, what Poor Richard says, Employ thy Time well, if thou meanest to gain Leisure; and, since thou art not sure of a Minute, throw not away an Hour. 
