 So much for industry, my friends, and attention to one's own 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,...  Poor Richard; or, The way to wealth - Page 7by Benjamin Franklin - 1820 - 288 pagesFull view - About this book
 | William Goodman - Great Britain - 1845 - 340 pages
...sounds, by which the wayfarer * In poor Richard's Almanac for 1758, Ihe following old adage is quoted : " Many estates are spent in the getting, Since women for tea forsook spinning and knitting, And men for punch forsook hewing and splitting." t Spectator, No. 364. t How much this is... | |
 | Benjamin Franklin - 1846 - 250 pages
...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, " k/eep his nose...groat at last." "A fat kitchen makes a lean will," as poor Richard says; and, " Many estates are spent in the getting ; Since women for tea forsook spinning... | |
 | Benjamin Franklin - 1846 - 320 pages
...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...groat at last.' 'A fat kitchen makes a lean will,' as poor Richard says; and, 'Many estates are spent in the getting, Since women for tea forsook spinning... | |
 | Half hours - 1847 - 614 pages
...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...getting, Since women for tea forsook spinning and knitting, And men for punch forsook hewing and splitting.' ' If you would be wealthy, think of saving,... | |
 | Benjamin Franklin Ells - American literature - 1778 - 392 pages
...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 uot worth a groat at last — a fat kitchen makes a lean will;" and "Many estates are spent in the... | |
 | Orville Luther Holley - Inventors - 1848 - 522 pages
...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 FRUGALITY. 213 die not worth a groat at last. A fat kitchen makes a lean will; and — Many estates... | |
 | Advice - 1848 - 72 pages
...human nature, in every situation of life, is liable. As an American writer says, "A man may, if he knows not how to save as he gets, keep his nose all his life at the grindstone, and die not worth a groat at last." If you would be wealthy, says the same writer,... | |
 | Benjamin Franklin - Inventors - 1853 - 522 pages
...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...getting, Since women for tea forsook spinning and knitting, And men for punch forsook hewing and splitting.' " ' If you would be wealthy, think of saving,... | |
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