 How much more than is necessary do we spend in sleep, forgetting that the sleeping fox catches no poultry, and that there will be sleeping enough in the grave, as Poor Richard says.  Business - Page 375edited by - 1911 - 401 pagesFull view - About this book
 | Edmund Henry Barker - Anecdotes - 1852 - 342 pages
...is made of. The sleeping fox catches no poultry, and there will be sleeping enough in the grave. If time be of all things the most precious, wasting time must be the greatest prodigality. CL1X. TJPPOO SULTAN'S THRONE. — The Sultan's throne, we are told, being... | |
 | Benjamin Franklin - 1853 - 308 pages
...catches no poultry, and that there will be sleeping enough in the grave,' as poor Richard says. ' If time be of all things the most precious, wasting time must be (as poor Richard •ays) the greatest prodigality ;' since, as he elsewhere tells us, ' Lost time is never found again;... | |
 | Ludwig Herrig - American literature - 1854 - 580 pages
...Catches no poultry, and that there will be sleeping enough in the grave," äs poor Richard says. „If time be of all things the most precious. wasting time must be," äs poor Richard says, „the greatest prodigality;" since. äs he elsewhere teils us, „lost time... | |
 | Benjamin Franklin - 1855 - 402 pages
...catches no poultry, and that there will be sleeping enough in the grave,' as poor Richard says. ' If time be of all things the most precious, wasting time...prodigality ;' since, as he elsewhere tells us, 'Lost time ia never found again : and what we call time enough, always proves little enough.' Let us then up and... | |
 | William Chambers - 1856 - 444 pages
..." there will bo sleeping enough in the grave," as Poor Richard says. " If time bo of all things tho most precious, wasting time must be," as Poor Richard...always proves little enough. Let us, then, up and bo doing, and bo doing to the purpose, so by diligence shall we do more with less perplexity. Sloth... | |
 | Half hours - 1856 - 650 pages
...will be sleeping enough in the grave,' as Poor Richard says. " ' If time be of nil things the moist precious, wasting time must be," as Poor Richard says, ' the greatest prodigality ; ' since, ns he elsewhere tells us, ' Lost time is never found again ; and what we call time enough, always proves... | |
 | Aphorisms and apothegms - 1856 - 570 pages
...Pass'd over to the end they were created, Would bring white hairs unto a quiet Grave. e.— Franklin. TF Time be of all things the most precious, wasting Time must be the greatest prodigality, since lost Time is never found again ; and what we call Time enough always... | |
 | Sarah Josepha Buell Hale - Cookery - 1857 - 730 pages
...sleeping fox catches no poultry. 3430. There will be time enough for sleep, in the grave. 3431. If time be of all things the most precious, wasting time must be the greatest prodigality. 3432. Lost time is never found again. 3433. What we call time enough, always... | |
 | Charles Dexter Cleveland - American literature - 1858 - 752 pages
...catches no poultry, and that There will be sleeping enough in the grave, as Poor Richard says. " If time be of all things the most precious, wasting time...again ; and what we call time enough, always proves littte enough. Let us then up and be doing, and doing to the purpose ; so by diligence shall we do... | |
 | Ferdinand E. A. Gasc - French language - 1858 - 362 pages
...that there will be sleeping enough in the grave,'4 as poor Richard says. ' If time be of all things6 the most precious, wasting time must be (as poor Richard...elsewhere tells us, ' Lost time is never found again ;6 and what we call time enough, always proves little enough.'7 Let us then up and be doing, and doing... | |
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