 | Benjamin Franklin - 1849 - 322 pages
...consult your purae. 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 ; hut poor Dick says, 'It is easier to suppress the first desire, than to satisfy all that follow it.'... | |
 | 1851 - 112 pages
...money, go and try and borrow some. Pride is as loud a beggar as want, and a great deal more sancy. It is easier to suppress the first desire than to satisfy all that follow it. Pride that dines on vanity, sups on contempt. Pride breakfasts with plenty, dines with poverty, and... | |
 | Charles Simmons - Aphorisms and apothegms - 1852 - 564 pages
...Pride will have a fall. Franklin. 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 it is easier to suppress the first desire, than to satisfy all that follow it. Ezek. 16: 49. "TMs was... | |
 | W. H. R. - 1852 - 424 pages
...thoughts and principles are borne down. The philosophy of this is partly set forth in the proverb, " When you have bought one fine thing, you must buy ten more, — that your appearance may be all of a piece." There are two ways in which persons are led to the violation of personal and domestic economy. The... | |
 | William Chambers - Encyclopedias and dictionaries - 1853 - 858 pages
...consult your purse.1 " 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,...is as truly folly for the poor to ape the rich, as the frog to swell in order to equal the ox. ' Vi-ssrls Inrg"' mny vfimm- mon1. Hut little boats should... | |
 | Tryon Edwards - Quotations, English - 1853 - 442 pages
...or love. — Osborn. PRIDE. — 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 it is easier to suppress the first desire, than to satisfy all that follow it. — Franklin. PRIDE.... | |
 | Benjamin Franklin - 1853 - 308 pages
...consult your purse.' 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 he all of a piece ; but poor Dick says, * It is easier to suppress the first desire, than to satisfy... | |
 | Ludwig Herrig - American literature - 1854 - 580 pages
...When you have bought one thing fine, you must buy then more, that your appearance may be all ofapiece; but poor Dick says, „it is easier to suppress the...desire than to satisfy all that follow it; and it is äs truly folly for the poor to ape the rieh, äs for the frog to swell, in order to equal the ox."... | |
 | Benjamin Franklin - 1855 - 402 pages
...consult your purse.' And again, 'Pride is as loud a beggar as Want, and a great deal more sancy.' When you have bought one fine thing, you must buy ten more,...is as truly folly for the poor to ape the rich, as the frog to swell, in order to equal the ox. ' Vessels large may venture more. But little boats should... | |
 | Carl August Friedrich Mahn - Greek language - 1855 - 310 pages
...unterbrucfen, than to satisfy all that follow it ala aííe bie jit befttebigeti, bie auf if)n folgen. And it is as truly folly for the poor to ape the rich itnb ее ¡ft eben fo »afjtljaft ïfyotljett fût bie Sltmen ben ffleidjen nadjjuajfen, as for 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... 
