 | Thomas Hood - 1852 - 258 pagina’s
...than the jester's."— Extr.from Preface M HO OD'S OWN SELECTED PAPERS. tinrntt ILLUSTEATIONS. PAGE. " TAKE CARE OF THE PENCE, AND THE POUNDS WILL TAKE CARE OF THEMSELVES" . . . . .10 OVER THE WAT ...... 23 A MODERATE INCOME . . . . . .30 THE SUBLIME AND THE... | |
 | Shopkeeper, Robert Kemp Philp - 1853 - 264 pagina’s
...farmer, who had brought them for one of Girard's ships — ' take them away — I will not buy them.'" "Take care of the pence, and the pounds will take care of themselves," was evidently his opinion. A. merchant of Boston, of fifty years' standing, who is represented... | |
 | Ronald Bogue, Mihai Spariosu - 1994 - 288 pagina’s
...tandem with the fact that the duchess's formulation itself is a sonorous echo of the English proverb "Take care of the pence and the pounds will take care of themselves." 7 Under close scrutiny it becomes quite obvious that the characters' obsession with referentiality... | |
 | Lewis Carroll - 1992 - 292 pagina’s
...person was the Duchess (p. 83) 23 (p. 1 10) Take care of the sense a rewriting of the old proverb, 'Take care of the pence and the pounds will take care of themselves.' 24 (p. 112) Mock Turtle Soup a cheap imitation of turtle soup made (according to The Alice... | |
 | Jean Rey - 1963 - 150 pagina’s
...bons comptes font les bons amis. A penny saved is a penny gained. Il n'ya pas de petites économies. Take care of the pence and the pounds will take care of themselves. Les petites économies font les bonnes maisons (appr.). THE LIGHTER SIDE The teacher of... | |
 | Flemming Steen Nielsen - 1997 - 438 pagina’s
...Se f.eks. citatet VIII,9,(71). (35) F.eks. Words, pp.25-30. (36) Ibid., p.25: For example, the rule "Take care of the pence and the pounds will take care of themselves" is evidently not quite true without exception, since another piece of proverbial wisdom... | |
 | Connie Robertson - 1998 - 404 pagina’s
...of, be sure of this - that you are dreadfully like other people. this LOWNDES William 1652-1724 2608 Take care of the pence, and the pounds will take care of themselves. UIBBOCKJohn 2609 A poor woman from Manchester, on being taken to the seaside, is said to... | |
 | Connie Robertson - 1998 - 686 pagina’s
...Arthur RM 6602 All zeal runs down. What replaces it? Intellectualism. LOWNDES William 1652-1724 6603 divine despair. 11592 'The Princess' Man is the hunter; themselves. LOWRY Malcolm 1909-1957 6604 Fear ringed by doubt is my eternal moon. I like prefaces.... | |
 | S. W. Fallon - 1998 - 336 pagina’s
...! 156 MAR Maqdur kl man kauri hi ragartl hai. The scowering of kauris is the mother of opulence. ( Take care of the pence and the pounds will take care of themselves.) Ma rä che aññ qissa, ki gao amad о Мшг raft ? Per. What is it to me, that a cow... | |
 | Gaius Valerius Catullus - 1998 - 228 pagina’s
...one in line 2), and provides an equivalent touch of alliteration there. One remembers the old saying 'Take care of the pence and the pounds will take care of themselves'; in translation 'the pence' are details like these — the minutiae. But if the text of... | |
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Take care of the pence and the pounds will take care of themselves is as true of personal habits as of money. 
