 | Richard Deforest Erickson - 1998 - 83 Seiten
...guilt-stress in many of us. Here, again, is that belief expanded to a fuller degree in Franklin: "If time be of all things the most precious, wasting time must be the greatest prodigality, since lost time is never found again; and what we call time enough always... | |
 | Werner Sombart, Bryan S. Turner - 1998 - 400 Seiten
...that the sleeping fox catches no poultry, and that there will be sleeping enough in the grave. ... If time be of all things the most precious, wasting time must be ... the greatest prodigality." l64 Economy of time is only paralleled by economy of money. " If you... | |
 | Walter Isaacson - 2005 - 576 Seiten
...sleepingfox catches no poultry, and that there will be sleeping enough in the grave, as Poor Richard says. If time be of all things the most precious, wasting time...us, lost time is never found again, and what we call time-enough, always proves little enough: let us then be up and be doing, and doing to the purpose;... | |
 | Jerome M. Segal - 2003 - 289 Seiten
..."But dost thou love Life, then do not squander Time; for that's the stuff Life is made of." And "If Time be of all Things the most precious, wasting Time...be, as Poor Richard says, the greatest Prodigality." Franklin was concerned with how the average person might remain free in his own life, his own master.... | |
 | Kathleen A. Brehony - 2003 - 288 Seiten
...off your TV. It's a time killer and time is too precious to kill. As Benjamin Franklin once said, "If time be of all things the most precious, wasting time must be the greatest prodigality." You know from an earlier chapter that I love television and have several... | |
 | Benjamin Franklin - 2004 - 302 Seiten
...Fox catches no Poultry, and that there will be sleeping enough in the Grave, as Poor Richard says. If Time be of all Things the most precious, wasting Time...us, Lost Time is never found again; and what we call Time-enough, always proves little enough. Let us then up and be doing, and doing to the Purpose; so... | |
 | Robert E. Belknap - 2004 - 252 Seiten
...Fox catches no poultry, and that There will be sleeping enough in the Grave, as Poor Richard says. If Time be of all things the most precious, wasting Time...us, Lost Time is never found again; and what we call Time-enough, always proves little enough: Let us then up and be doing, and doing to the Purpose; so... | |
 | Stephen M. Best - 2004 - 362 Seiten
...time be of all things the most precious, wasting time must be ... the greatest prodigality [since] lost time is never found again; and what we call time enough always proves little enough").81 In this colony of idleness, this province beyond work, the Cakewalk emerges as an odd mirror... | |
 | Stephen M. Best - 2010 - 376 Seiten
...time be of all things die most precious, wasting time must be ... die greatest prodigality [since] lost time is never found again; and what we call time enough always proves litde enough" (Franklin, The Way to Wealth, 453-68). 133. George Fitzhugh, "Freedmen and Free Men,"... | |
 | Erin Barrett, Jack Mingo - 2004 - 121 Seiten
...consider whether you'd be happier in another career, and if so, start making plans to pursue it. *** If time be of all things the most precious, wasting time must be the greatest prodigality, since lost time is never found again. What uses up your time without giving... | |
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How much more than is necessary do we spend in sleep, forgetting that the sleeping fox catches no poultry, and that there will be sleeping enough in the grave, as Poor Richard says. 
