 | Miss Pardoe (Julia) - 1848 - 332 pages
...interest for it ; unquestionable security ; you may trust me. But be saving, Gertrude ; be saving. ' Take care of the pence, and the pounds will take care of themselves, as poor Richard says.' But what do you want to do with part of it, child ? What can you... | |
 | 1848 - 420 pages
...another pounding." — " Pound away you fool. Me and Dr. Franklin agrees, Dr. Franklin says : '• Take care of the pence and the pounds will take care of thcmslevcs." A SAD MISTAKE. — A certain lady had a custom of saying to a favorite little dog, to... | |
 | John Antrobus - 1849 - 336 pages
...hence may reap, in succession, all the various advantages that the most perfect system could produce. " Take care of the pence, and the pounds will take care of themselves," is an old and trite maxim, that holds equally true of education ; and the parent who covets... | |
 | Benjamin Humphrey Smart - 1849 - 184 pages
...that blows nobody good. — Tread on a worm, and it wttl turn. — Penny wise and pound foolish. — Take care of the pence, and the pounds will take care of themselves. — Good words cost nothing. — Better lose a jest than a friend. — Pardon others, but... | |
 | 1854 - 672 pages
...hours, and this amounts to a large sum of waste tune in a week. You will have heard the old saying, " Take care of the pence, and the pounds will take care of themselves." As it is with money, so it is with time. " Take care of the minutes, and the hours will... | |
 | Lessons - 1849 - 244 pages
...you buy ; be frugal ; and, if possible, never get into debt, or rely upon the charity of others. " Take care of the pence, and the pounds will take care of themselves." Do not become weekly customers for your provisions, coals, or clothing, but secure the... | |
 | 1850 - 632 pages
...or enjoy. — if. T. Ег-апдсЫ. "TRIFLES." THE principle involved in the maxim of Franklin, " Take care of the pence, and the pounds will take care of themselves," is universally just, and susceptible of quite other applications than the philosopher... | |
 | 1850 - 818 pages
...the value of time. Labour to improve every minute. There is an old proverb with regard to money, " Take care of the pence, and the pounds will take care of themselves," implying that those who look narrowly ¡ after small sums, will not be very likely j to... | |
 | Harvey Prindle Peet - 1850 - 278 pages
...done in order to state the consequences. Flatter a child, and you will be sure to please its mother. Take care of the pence, and the pounds will take care of themselves. Set a little boy on horseback, and he will perhaps break his neck. " Train up a child in... | |
 | Martin Farquhar Tupper - 1850 - 544 pages
...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... | |
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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. 
