 | sir Robert Harry Inglis Palgrave - 1882 - 250 pages
...and die not worth a groat at last." " A fat rtchen makes a lean will," as poor Richard says ; and, Many estates are spent in the getting ; Since women...knitting, And men for punch forsook hewing and splitting. '"If you would be wealthy (says he, in another Almanac), think of saving, as well as of getting : the... | |
 | Georgina Frederica Jackson - Folklore - 1883 - 694 pages
...porridge, Missis an' broth, Madam an' tay.' 3. Of Idleness and Luxury : ' Many estates are spent in getting Since women for tea forsook spinning and knitting, And men for their beer forsook hewing and splitting.' Chirbury. (See Hazlitt's Frorerbi.) 4. Of Hours of Sleep... | |
 | Fortunate men - 1884 - 192 pages
...life to the grind-stone, and die not worth a groat at last. A fat kitchen makes a lean will;' and ' Many estates are spent in the getting, Since women...knitting, And men for punch forsook hewing and splitting.' ' If you would be wealthy, think of saving as well as of getting. The Indies have not made Spain rich,... | |
 | Osgood Eaton Fuller - Biography - 1884 - 564 pages
...life to the grindstone, and die not worth a groat at last. A fat kitchen makes a lean will;' and " ' Many estates are spent in the getting, Since women...knitting. And men for punch forsook hewing and splitting/ 'If you would be wealthy, think of saving, as well as of getting. The Indies have not made Spain rich,... | |
 | Ludwig Herrig - 1885 - 752 pages
...his life to the grindstone, and die not worth a groat at last. A fat kitchen makes a lean will;' and red the reason why the word of the lie should be such a disgrace and such a und knitting And men for punch forsook hewing and splitting. 'If you would be wealthy, think of saving,... | |
 | Frank McAlpine - American prose literature - 1886 - 456 pages
...life to the grindstone, and die not worth a groat at last. A fat kitchen makes a lean will;' and— 'Many estates are spent in the getting, Since women...knitting, And men for punch forsook hewing and splitting.' 'If you would be wealthy, think of saving, as well as of getting. The Indies have not made Spain rich,... | |
 | Georgina Frederica Jackson - 1886 - 320 pages
...Shropihirc JTord-Book, av Piggin. BK. II. 1' 1> 3. Of Idleness and Luxury : ' Many estates are spent in getting Since women for tea forsook spinning and knitting, And men for their beer forsook hewing and splitting.' Chirbury. (See Hazlitt's Proverbt.) 4. Of Hours of Sleep... | |
 | W & R CHAMBERS - 1887 - 238 pages
...and die not worth a groat at last." " A fat kitchen makes a lean will," as poor Richard says; and " Many estates are spent in the getting ; Since women...knitting, And men for punch forsook hewing and splitting." '" If you would be wealthy," says he, in another almanac, " think of saving as well as of getting:... | |
 | Maxims - 1887 - 1332 pages
...body without head. Ger. 177. Man, woman, and the devil are the three degrees of comparison. 489 179. Many estates are spent in the getting Since women for tea forsook spinning and knitting, And men for their punch hewing and splitting. 180. Many things make the honor of a man, few that of a woman. (Economy,... | |
 | John Bach McMaster - 1887 - 326 pages
...last. A fat kitchen makes a lean will ; and — Many estates are spent in the getting, Since women forsook spinning and knitting, And men for punch forsook hewing and splitting. If you would be wealthy, think of saving as well as of getting. The Indies have not made Spain rich,... | |
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Business; but to these we must add Frugality, if we would make our Industry more certainly successful. A Man may, if he knows not how to save as he gets, keep his Nose all his Life to the Grindstone, and die not worth a Groat at last. A fat Kitchen makes... 
