 | 1889 - 854 pagina’s
...grindstone all his life, and die not ' jrth a groat at last. A fat kitchen makes a lean will ; and " ' Many estates are spent in the getting, Since women...knitting, And men for punch forsook hewing and splitting. If yon would be wealthy, think of saving as well as of getting. The Indies have not made Spain rich,... | |
 | William Babcock Weeden - 1890 - 542 pagina’s
...p. 149. 4 Franklin's Works, Sparks's edition, ii. 95 et seq. 1745-62.] BIS SCIENCE OF ECONOMY. 709 " Many estates are spent in the getting, Since women...knitting, And men for punch forsook hewing and splitting." " Many a little makes a mickle. . . . Lying rides upon Debt's back. . . . Experience keeps a clear... | |
 | Samuel Briggs, Nathaniel Ames - 1891 - 516 pagina’s
...of a horse the rider was lost, being overtaken by the enemy, all for the want of a horseshoe nail. Since women for tea forsook spinning and knitting and men for punch forsook hewing & splitting, many fair estates are spent in the getting. A man if he knows not how to save as he gets,... | |
 | John Kneeland, Henry Nathan Wheeler - 1891 - 508 pagina’s
...lean will, as Poor Richard says ; and — Many estates are spent in the getting, Since women for tea 1 forsook spinning and knitting, And men for punch forsook hewing and splitting. If you would be wealthy, says he in another Almanac, Think of saving as well as of getting. Tlie Indies... | |
 | 1892 - 588 pagina’s
...southernwood or old man. BC. 264. Lasses is cumbersome, Lads is lumbersome. Lincolnshire. AG. 162. Many estates are spent in (the) getting, Since women,...for tea, forsook spinning and knitting, And men for their beer forsook hewing and splitting. Chirbury, Shropshire. AP. 578. In BC. 285, punch replaces... | |
 | Ainsworth Rand Spofford, Charles Gibbon - 1893 - 518 pagina’s
...grindstone and die not worth a groat at last. ' A fat kitchen makes a lean will;' and '' ' Many estate« are spent in the getting, Since women for tea forsook spinning and knitting. And men for punch foraook hewing and splitting.' ' If you would be wealthy, think of saving as well as of getting. The... | |
 | Edmund Clarence Stedman, Ellen Mackay Hutchinson, Mrs. Ellen Mackay Hutchinson Cortissoz - 1894 - 592 pagina’s
...grindstone, and die not worth a groat at last A fat kitchen makes a lean will; and Many estates ore spent in the getting, Since women for tea forsook...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,... | |
 | 1910 - 272 pagina’s
...lean will, as Poor Richard says ; and — Many estates are spent in the getting, Since women for tea 1 forsook spinning and knitting, And men for punch forsook hewing and splitting. 1 Tea at this time was a costly drink, and was regarded as a 1 uz ury . If you would be wealthy, says... | |
 | Benjamin Franklin - 1910 - 216 pagina’s
...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. If you would be wealthy, think of saving as well as of getting. The Indies have not made Spain rich,... | |
 | Andrew Carnegie - 1911 - 446 pagina’s
...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...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,... | |
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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, and die not worth a Groat at last. A fat Kitchen makes... 
