 | Rev. Daniel Smith - 1852 - 278 pagine
...days will slip through your hands unprofitable and frivolous, and really unenjoyed by yourself.' " "Take care of the pence, and the pounds will take care of themselves," is the maxim of those who pursue wealth. "Take care of the minutes, and the hours will... | |
 | John Stoughton - 1852 - 290 pagine
...will create a wise economy. As in money, so in time, we are to look chiefly to the smallest portions. Take care of the pence, and the pounds will take care of themselves. Take care of the minutes and the hours, and years will take care of themselves. Gold is... | |
 | Ronald Bogue, Mihai Spariosu - 1994 - 288 pagine
...tandem with the fact that the duchess's formulation itself is a sonorous echo of the English proverb "Take care of the pence and the pounds will take care of themselves." 7 Under close scrutiny it becomes quite obvious that the characters' obsession with referentiality... | |
 | Lewis Carroll - 1992 - 292 pagine
...person was the Duchess (p. 83) 23 (p. 1 10) Take care of the sense a rewriting of the old proverb, 'Take care of the pence and the pounds will take care of themselves.' 24 (p. 112) Mock Turtle Soup a cheap imitation of turtle soup made (according to The Alice... | |
 | Jean Rey - 1963 - 150 pagine
...bons comptes font les bons amis. A penny saved is a penny gained. Il n'ya pas de petites économies. Take care of the pence and the pounds will take care of themselves. Les petites économies font les bonnes maisons (appr.). THE LIGHTER SIDE The teacher of... | |
 | Flemming Steen Nielsen - 1997 - 438 pagine
...Se f.eks. citatet VIII,9,(71). (35) F.eks. Words, pp.25-30. (36) Ibid., p.25: For example, the rule "Take care of the pence and the pounds will take care of themselves" is evidently not quite true without exception, since another piece of proverbial wisdom... | |
 | Lewis Carroll - 1998 - 324 pagine
...1653, Part I, ch. 2. (3) Take care of the sense and the sounds will take care of themselves: parody of 'Take care of the pence and the pounds will take care of themselves', a proverb, already common in the seventeenth century, cf. Ray, Collection of English Proverbs, 1678,... | |
 | Connie Robertson - 1998 - 686 pagine
...Arthur RM 6602 All zeal runs down. What replaces it? Intellectualism. LOWNDES William 1652-1724 6603 divine despair. 11592 'The Princess' Man is the hunter; themselves. LOWRY Malcolm 1909-1957 6604 Fear ringed by doubt is my eternal moon. I like prefaces.... | |
 | Gaius Valerius Catullus - 1998 - 228 pagine
...one in line 2), and provides an equivalent touch of alliteration there. One remembers the old saying 'Take care of the pence and the pounds will take care of themselves'; in translation 'the pence' are details like these — the minutiae. But if the text of... | |
 | S. W. Fallon - 1998 - 336 pagine
...! 156 MAR Maqdur kl man kauri hi ragartl hai. The scowering of kauris is the mother of opulence. ( Take care of the pence and the pounds will take care of themselves.) Ma rä che aññ qissa, ki gao amad о Мшг raft ? Per. What is it to me, that a cow... | |
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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. 
