 | Howard Copeland Hill, Rollo La Verne Lyman - 1924 - 560 Seiten
...look pretty, how many want to have them ! "By these and other extravagances, the greatest are reduced to poverty, and forced to borrow of those whom they...industry and frugality, have maintained their standing. 'If you would know the value of money, go and try to borrow some; for he that goes a-borrowing goes... | |
 | Rollo La Verne Lyman, Howard Copeland Hill - 1925 - 736 Seiten
...look pretty, how many want to have them! By these and other extravagances, the greatest are reduced to poverty and forced to borrow of those whom they...and frugality, have maintained their standing. In this case it appears plainly that 'a plowman on his legs is higher than a gentleman on his knees,'... | |
 | Franklin Pierce Adams, Deems Taylor - 1925 - 300 Seiten
...make feasts, and wise men eat them. Silks and satins, scarlet and velvets, put out the kitchen Sre. A plowman on his legs is higher than a gentleman on his knees. When the well is dry, they know the worth of water. Where there's marriage without love, there will... | |
 | Robert Shafer - 1926 - 1410 Seiten
...Person, there are an hundred indigent. By these, and other extravagancies, the Genteel are reduced to poverty, and forced to borrow of those whom they...Standing; in which Case it appears plainly, that A Ploughman on his Legs is higher than a Gentleman on his Knees, as Poor Richard says. Perhaps they have... | |
 | Frederick Alexander Manchester, William Frederic Giese - 1926 - 924 Seiten
...fools, scarcely by their own. — Silks and satins, scarlets and velvets, put out the kitchen fire. — A plowman on his legs is higher than a gentleman on his knees. — A child and a fool imagine twenty shillings and twenty years can never be spent. — He that goes... | |
 | Frederick Alexander Manchester, William Frederic Giese - 1926 - 928 Seiten
...fools, scarcely by their own. — Silks and satins, scarlets and velvets, put out the kitchen, fire. — A plowman on his legs is higher than a gentleman on his knees. — A child and a fool imagine twenty shillings and twenty years can never be spent.— He that goes... | |
 | William Gardiner - 1927 - 328 Seiten
...poor person ihere are a hundred indigent. By these, and other extravagances, the genteel are reduced to poverty, and forced to borrow of those whom they...standing; in which case it appears plainly, that A ploughman on his legs is higher than a gentleman on his knees, as Poor Richard says. Perhaps they have... | |
 | Franklyn Bliss Snyder, Edward Douglas Snyder - 1927 - 1288 Seiten
...person, there arc an hundred indigent. By these, and other extravagancies, the genteel are reduced to poverty, and forced to borrow of those whom they...standing; in which case it appears plainly, that A ploughman on his legs is higher than a gentleman on his knees, as Poor Richard says. Perhaps they have... | |
 | Kathy Sammis - 1997 - 128 Seiten
...praises or criticizes. 1. Speak little, do much. sayings 2. When the wine enters, out goes the truth. 3. A plowman on his legs is higher than a gentleman on his knees. 4. God heals, and the doctor takes the fees. 7. Neglect mending a small fault, and it will soon be... | |
 | Peter McNamara - 1999 - 278 Seiten
..."who has no other Quality to recommend him but his Birth" (976). Poor Richard once noted pointedly that "a Plowman on his Legs is higher than a Gentleman on his Knees" (1238), and often sounded the theme that humble callings were as honorable as any offered in aristocratic... | |
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A ploughman on his legs is higher than a gentleman on his knees, as Poor Richard says. Perhaps they have had a small estate left them, which they knew not the getting of; they think, 'Tis day, and will never be night... 
