 | 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... | |
 | 1850 - 642 pages
...manifest to observing minds. Hence many of the sage maxims of our "proverbial philosophy," such as "Take care of the pence, and the pounds will take care of themselves ;" "Take care of the minutes, and the hours will take care of themselves." The principle... | |
 | Martin Farquhar Tupper - 1851 - 532 pages
...changed 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... | |
 | Saint John Henry Newman - Anti-Catholicism - 1851 - 426 pages
...let each approve himself in his own neighbourhood; if each portion is defended, the whole is secured. Take care of the pence, and the pounds will take care of themselves. Let the London press alone; do not appeal to it; do not expostulate with it; do not flatter... | |
 | Success - Conduct of life - 1851 - 362 pages
...there is no lack of such sayings as, "A pin a day is a groat a year ? or that we have already quoted," Take care of the pence and the pounds will take care of themselves." Perhaps the former of these maxims, which bears such strongly marked features of homelier... | |
 | George Mogridge - Children's stories, English - 1851 - 116 pages
...and profitably is harder than either. There is a saying which has a great deal of good sense in it: " Take care of the pence, and the pounds will take care of themselves." You will do well to remember, that, though "the love of money is the root of all evil,"... | |
 | John Henry Newman (card.) - 1851 - 442 pages
...each approve himself in his own neighbourhood ; if each portion is defended, the whole is secured. Take care of the pence, and the pounds will take care of themselves. Let the London press alone ; do not appeal to it ; do not expostulate with it ; do not... | |
 | Edward Butt - 1852 - 680 pages
...subject, as the chosen matters of investigation. In money matters it is a good piece of advice to " take care of the pence, and the pounds will take care of themselves." In scientific and literary matters, it ¡8 a good piece of advice also, to take care of... | |
 | Thomas Hood - English wit and humor - 1852 - 258 pages
...than the jester's."— Extr.from Preface M HO OD'S OWN SELECTED PAPERS. tinrntt ILLUSTEATIONS. PAGE. " TAKE CARE OF THE PENCE, AND THE POUNDS WILL TAKE CARE OF THEMSELVES" . . . . .10 OVER THE WAT ...... 23 A MODERATE INCOME . . . . . .30 THE SUBLIME AND THE... | |
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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. 
