 | Ralph Keyes - 2007 - 416 pages
...was, "Fish and visitors smell in three days." In Poor Richard's Almanack, Benjamin Franklin wrote, "For want of a Nail the Shoe is lost; for want of...Horse is lost; for want of a Horse the Rider is lost." More than a century earlier, poet-aphorist George Herbert (1593-1633) wrote, "For want of a nail the... | |
 | Philip E. Auerswald, Lewis M. Branscomb, Todd M. La Porte, Erwann O. Michel-Kerjan - 2006 - 507 pages
...uncertain, and dangerous future. NOTES TOWARD A THEORY OF THE MANAGEMENT OF VULNERABILITY Robert A. Frosch "For want of a nail the shoe is lost, for want of...horse is lost, for want of a horse the rider is lost, for want of a rider the battle is lost, for want of a battle the kingdom is lost, all for the loss... | |
 | Thomas Keymer - 2006 - 296 pages
...collections such as George Herbert's Outlandish Proverbs (1640), and recently revived by Benjamin Franklin: "For want of a nail the shoe is lost; for want of...shoe the horse is lost; for want of a horse the rider lost."23 Two chapters later, a reference back to "Dr. Slop's sad overthrow" (2.11.126) is another mock-heroic... | |
 | Maura R. Graglia - 2004 - 124 pages
...about how many of these comments you use with students to validate your thinking with them. Discussion lost, for want of a shoe the horse is lost, for want of a horse the rider is lost. " There's a lot of truth to that; don't forget the simple things, they have huge consequences. Simple... | |
 | Ehsan Honary - 2007 - 342 pages
...the other guy. He should back off or else, as you have no choice but to invade. 6.4.3 Slippery Slope "For want of a nail the shoe is lost, for want of...horse is lost, for want of a horse the rider is lost, for want of a rider the battle is lost, for want of a battle the kingdom is lost." George Herbert One... | |
 | 372 pages
...that the American people are his own people. Pentagon: Better Armor Could Have Saved Many Soldiers "For want of a Nail the Shoe is lost; for want of...Horse is lost; for want of a Horse the Rider is lost." Benjamin Franklin, Poor Richard's Almanac, 1752 2004: Newsweek reports today on an investigation commissioned... | |
 | 1956 - 870 pages
...Division, Huntsville, Ala. • Longhorn Division, Marshall, Tex. "For Want of a Nail . . . 99 For tcant of a nail the shoe is lost, for want of a shoe the horse is lost, for tvant of a horse the rider is lost. George Herbert's statement applies to electronics today as it did... | |
 | 1904 - 590 pages
...Beauty is but skin deep. 28. Every little helps. 29. Follow the river and you will get to the sea. 30. For want of a nail the shoe is lost : for want of a shoe the horst is lost ; for want of a horse the rider is lost. 31. All work and no play, makes Jack a dull... | |
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For want of a nail the shoe is lost, for want of a shoe the horse is lost, for want of a horse the rider is lost. 
