 | 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... | |
 | Benjamin Franklin - 1998 - 404 Seiten
...Industry and Frugality have maintained their 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 had a small Estate left them, which they knew not the Getting of; they think 'tis Day, and will... | |
 | 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... | |
 | Darrel Abel - 2002 - 438 Seiten
..."A true great Man will neither trample on a Worm nor sneak to an Emperor." Independence is dignity. "A Plowman on his Legs is higher than a Gentleman on his Knees." Utilitarianism Only useful knowledge has value. "A man of knowledge like rich soil, feeds If not a... | |
 | Walter Isaacson - 2005 - 576 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... | |
 | Ronald J. Pestritto, Thomas G. West - 2003 - 304 Seiten
...similar sentiments flowed with some regularity from the pen of the appropriately named Poor Richard. "A Plowman on his Legs is higher than a Gentleman on his Knees," he wrote at one point, in effect exhorting Americans to stand fast in their disdain for pretensions... | |
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By these, and other extravagances, the genteel are reduced to poverty, and forced to borrow of those whom they formerly despised, but who, through industry and frugality, have maintained their standing; in which case it appears plainly, that A plowman... 
