 | Jerome M. Segal - Philosophy - 2003 - 302 pages
...writes, "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...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 - Family & Relationships - 2003 - 292 pages
...turn 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... | |
 | Robert E. Belknap - Language Arts & Disciplines - 2004 - 284 pages
...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...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... | |
 | Benjamin Franklin - Reference - 2004 - 320 pages
...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...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 - Literary Criticism - 2010 - 375 pages
...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 of... | |
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If Time be of all Things the most precious, wasting Time must be, as Poor Richard says, the greatest Prodigality; since, as he elsewhere tells us, Lost Time is never found again; and what we call Time enough, always proves little enough... 
