 | Eliza Leslie - 1835 - 302 էջ
...in rough turpentine, he introduced the well-known adages of " a penny saved is a penny got," and " take care of the pence and the pounds will take care of themselves." " Pence and cents are nearly the same," thought the conscious Selina. She had on her .plate... | |
 | edmund ruffin - 1835 - 912 էջ
...on, somewhat oftener than they do. The first is, "a penny saved is a penny gained," and the other is "take care of the pence and the pounds will take care of themselves." The first item which we would recommend to the consideration of our planters is, that... | |
 | William Gilmore Simms - 1835 - 286 էջ
...pleasure, as with money-making, according to the rule laid down by that old Pennsylvania printer, ' Take care of the pence, and the pounds will take care of themselves.' Take care of the moments, and you need never look after the hours. That's my doctrine... | |
 | John Le Couteur - 1836 - 156 էջ
...overlooked — perhaps because it was so plentiful, and so diminutive. If Doctor Franklin's adage, " take care of the pence, and the pounds will take care of themselves, is true," it is not less correct to say to a husbandman, in the selection of his seed wheat,... | |
 | Henry Addington Simcoe - 1836 - 298 էջ
...should conduct himself in the regulation of his affairs, and expenditure of his property, he said, ' Take care of the pence, and the pounds will take care of themselves.' We might say with more propriety to the Christian, take care of little sins, and the great... | |
 | Thomas Hood - 1836 - 320 էջ
.... . — _ — Fancy Portrait — Audubon . . — Hiss-triouics .... _ A Chinese Puzzle ... — . " Take care of the Pence, and the Pounds will take care of themselves " - — Descended from the Conqueror T. Hood / Wright Sf \ Folkanl. " I cannot walk about... | |
 | Eliza Ware Farrar - 1837 - 274 էջ
...listening to others, or when your mind is so preoccupied that you cannot give it to a book. The old adage," Take care of the pence, and the pounds will take care of themselves," may be thus parodied, Take care of the minutes, and the days will take care of themselves.... | |
 | 1837 - 624 էջ
...be carried on to great advantage, whilst the fingers are mechanically employed. " The old adage, ' Take care of the pence, and the pounds will take care of themselves,' may be thus parodied, Take care of the minutes, and the days will take care of themselves.... | |
 | 1862 - 786 էջ
...TKUTH. [DREN. | GOSSIPING. HOUSEHOLD PHOYERBS ; OB, TBACTS FOB, THE PEOPLE. Price One Penny each. L Take Care of the Pence, and the Pounds will take Care of Themselves. 2. A Man is what a Woman Makes him. 3. He that goes a-Borrowing goes a-Sorrowing. 4. He... | |
 | Female excellence - 1838 - 240 էջ
...upon the sense : such are the Select Remains of Mason, Cecil, Newton, etc. The well-known maxim, " Take care of the pence, and the pounds will take care of then/selves," is equally applicable to time. Take care of the minutes, and the days and the years will... | |
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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. 
