 | Frank Ferguson - 1845 - 232 páginas
...expenditures, — be particular in details, and let no item escape your registry. It is a good saying, " Take care of the pence, and the pounds will take care of themselves." When you make contracts, settle all the particulars respecting them at the time. Never... | |
 | Susan Fenimore Cooper - 1845 - 954 páginas
...not the result of Baltimore prices, but of her own mismanagement. Franklin advises his friends to " take care of the pence, and the pounds will take care of themselves ;" but this rule is by no means infallible. Perhaps there is no species of extravagance... | |
 | Literary and Philosophical Society of Liverpool - 1845 - 720 páginas
...construction in the erection of a building. To use a simile, they act in utter defiance of the proverb, "take care of the pence, and the pounds will take care of themselves ;" — they devote their talents to the main walls, windows, and doors, with their decorations,... | |
 | Hints - 1845 - 174 páginas
...get rid, if possible, of their small bills before they trouble themselves with their large ones. " Take care of the pence, and the pounds will take care of themselves." Of course, impossibilities will be impossibilities still ; and if the Detrimental be equally... | |
 | 1846 - 620 páginas
...•' That old birds are not to be caught with chaff," " That what everybody says must be true," •' Take care of the pence and the pounds will take care of themselves," and a hundred other of the tritest savings. These surely do not offer much, either to... | |
 | William Hazlitt - 1846 - 514 páginas
...strange bed-fellows :" and it makes our thoughts traitors to ourselves. — It is a maxim with many — " Take care of the pence, and the pounds will take care of themselves." Those only put it in practice successfully who think more of the pence than of the pounds.... | |
 | Martin Farquhar Tupper - 1846 - 454 páginas
...another sovereign, and was owed again ; but, trust him, he wasn't going to be cheated out of that: take care of the pence, and the pounds will take care of themselves. But still it was ditto repeated; changing, being owed, grudging, grumbling : at last he... | |
 | Philip Dormer Stanhope (4th earl of Chesterfield.), Philip Dormer Stanhope Earl of Chesterfield - 1846 - 212 páginas
...of the treasury in the reigns of King William, Queen Anne, and King George the first, used to say, take care of the pence, and the pounds will take care of themselves. To A this maxim, which he not only preached, but practised, his* two grandsons, at this... | |
 | John Saul Howson - 1846 - 116 páginas
...the growth of habits. It was said that habits are formed by acts; general habits by particular acts. Take care of the pence, and the pounds will take care of themselves. Plant your trees, and in time you will have a wood. A seaman becomes expert, by making... | |
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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. 
