 | Godfrey Golding - 1873 - 348 Seiten
...— C " ' Fond pride of dress is sure a very curse ; C Ere fancy you consult, consult your purse. C0 And again — Pride is as loud a beggar as want, and a great ^ f-, deal more saucy. When you have bought one fine thing, , ^ you must buy ten more, that your appearance... | |
 | William Blanchard Jerrold - 1874 - 128 Seiten
...animosity don't set a tombstone over its grave. When you die, your trumpeter will be buried. WThen you have bought one fine thing you must buy ten more, that your appearance may be all of a piece. When you have counted your cards, you'll find you have gained but little. When you have no observers,... | |
 | 1874 - 648 Seiten
...beat and speak together, and make both felt in action. It is for cowards to lie. — George Herbert. Pride is as loud a beggar as want, and a great deal more saucy. When yon have bought one fine thing, you must buy ten more, that jonr appearance may be all of a piece ;... | |
 | Literary curiosities - 1876 - 334 Seiten
...damage than want of knowledge; and again, not to oversee workmen is to leave them your purse open. Pride is as loud a beggar as want, and a great deal...more, that your appearance may be all of a piece ; but it is easier to suppress the first desire than to satisfy all that follow it. He that hath a trade,... | |
 | Jeremiah Chaplin - 1876 - 416 Seiten
..."Silks and satins, scarlet and velvets, have put out the kitchen fire," as Poor Richard says. • • And again, " Pride is as loud a beggar as want, and a great deal more saucy. • • • • pride that dines on vanity, sups on contempt," as Poor Richard says. And, in another... | |
 | Young Men's Christian Associations (London, England) - 1876 - 580 Seiten
...lay out money in a purchase of repentance." " Sloth, like rust, consumes faster than labour wears." " Pride is as loud a beggar as want, and a great deal more saucy." " By diligence and patience the mouse cut in two the cable." We may crown these words of wisdom with... | |
 | Charles Joseph Sherwill Dawe - 1877 - 392 Seiten
...and says, " ' Fond pride of dress is sure a very curse : Ere fancy you consult, consult your purse.4 When you have bought one fine thing, you must buy...more, that your appearance may be all of a piece. And it is as truly folly for the poor to ape the rich as for the frog to swell in order to equal the... | |
 | Isaac Newton Carleton - 1878 - 140 Seiten
...schoolmaster, we must raise those of the recruiting sergeant. E. Everett, Mass., 1794-1865. 87. Pride. Pride is as loud a beggar as "Want, and a great deal...more, that your appearance may be all of a piece ; but it is easier to suppress the first desire than to satisfy all that follow it. S. Franklin, Mass., 1706-1790.... | |
 | London readers - 1878 - 248 Seiten
...con-ve'-ni-ent re-spec'-tive par'-ti-tions in'-ter-course WRITE FROM DICTATION: — 1. Pride is as bad a beggar as want, and a great deal more saucy. When you have bought one fare thing, you must buy ten more, that your appearance may be all of a piece ; but it is easier to... | |
 | Edwin Troxell Freedley - 1878 - 384 Seiten
...try to borrow some. A child and a fool imagine twenty shillings and twenty years can never be spent. Pride is as loud a beggar as want, and a great deal more sancy. Rather go to bed suppcrless than rise in debt. The borrower is a slave to the lender, and the... | |
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And again, Pride is as loud a beggar as want, and a great deal more saucy. When you have bought one fine thing, you must buy ten more, that your appearance may be all of a piece; but Poor Dick says, 'Tis easier to suppress the first desire than to satisfy... 
