 | Timothy Rasinski, Lorraine Griffith - 2005 - 112 Seiten
...your neighbors, if your own windows are glass. R4: A little neglect may breed mischief; for want of a nail the shoe was lost; for want of a shoe the horse was lost; for want of a horse the rider was lost; for want of the rider the battle was lost. R5: If you... | |
 | Robert Chambers - 2012 - 288 Seiten
...the spirit of the assessment. 26 An 'olde' English version of the butterfly effect runs: For want of a nail, the shoe was lost. For want of a shoe the horse was lost. For want of a horse the rider was lost. For want of a rider the battle was lost For loss of the... | |
 | Everett C. Dolman - 2005 - 254 Seiten
...numerous persons, including Benjamin Franklin and Shakespeare, but whose origins are obscure: 'For want of a nail the shoe was lost. For want of a shoe the horse was lost, For want of a horse the rider was lost. For want of a rider the battle was lost. For want of... | |
 | Steve Wohlberg - 2004 - 449 Seiten
...things you won't learn at the movies. 58 Chapter 8 Paul s Point: Antichrist Comes First For want of a nail the shoe was lost; for want of a shoe, the horse was lost; for want of a horse, the rider was lost; for want of the rider, the battle was lost. —Benjamin... | |
 | Orison Swett Marden - 2005 - 465 Seiten
...not cease its action until the whipping-post and bodily servitude are abolished forever. "For want of a nail the shoe was lost, For want of a shoe the horse was lost; For want of a horse the rider was lost, and all," says Poor Richard, " for want of a horseshoe... | |
 | Robert Fisher - 2005 - 268 Seiten
...association or sequence of ideas running through popular traditional stories and poems such as: For want of a nail the shoe was lost, For want of a shoe the horse was lost, For want of a horse the rider was lost, For want of a rider the battle was lost, And all for... | |
 | Benjamin Franklin - 2006 - 168 Seiten
...Franklin advises us on protecting in "Beware of Being Lulled into a Dangerous Security. " For want of a nail the shoe was lost; for want of a shoe the horse...enemy), all for want of care about a horseshoe nail. Great estates may venture more, But little boats should keep near shore. A little neglect may breed... | |
 | Steven Price - 2006 - 400 Seiten
...Melville Who buys a horse buys care. — Spanish proverh A little neglect may breed mischief: for want of a nail the shoe was lost,- for want of a shoe the...lost,- and for want of a horse the rider was lost. — Benjamin Franklin, Poor Richard's Almanac [also found in Jacula Prudentum hy George Herhert] Few... | |
 | Arnold Kransdorff - 2006 - 256 Seiten
...'For the want of a nail, the shoe was lost; for the want of a shoe the horse was lost; and for the want of a horse the rider was lost, being overtaken and slain by the enemy, all for the want of care about a horseshoe nail.' 48. Quoted in Richard Holies, What Colour is your Parachute?,... | |
 | Cheryl Kimball - 160 Seiten
...horse. For the want of a nail, the shoe was lost; for the want of a shoe the horse was lost; and for the want of a horse the rider was lost, being overtaken and slain by the enemy, all for the want of care about a horseshoe nail. -Benjamin Franklin 40 OSSingular Vision The field of opthomology... | |
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For want of a nail the shoe was lost ; for want of a shoe the horse was lost ; and for want of a horse the rider was lost; ' being overtaken and slain by the enemy, all for want of a little care about a horse-shoe nail. 
