 | Saint John Henry Newman - Anti-Catholicism - 1851 - 426 pages
...let each approve himself in his own neighbourhood; if each portion is defended, the whole is secured. Take care of the pence, and the pounds will take care of themselves. Let the London press alone; do not appeal to it; do not expostulate with it; do not flatter... | |
 | Edward Butt - 1852 - 680 pages
...of a subject, as the chosen matters of investigation. In money matters it is a good piece of advice to " take care of the pence, and the pounds will take care of themselves." In scientific and literary matters, it ¡8 a good piece of advice also, to take care of... | |
 | Lewis Carroll - Fiction - 1992 - 292 pages
...person was the Duchess (p. 83) 23 (p. 1 10) Take care of the sense a rewriting of the old proverb, 'Take care of the pence and the pounds will take care of themselves.' 24 (p. 112) Mock Turtle Soup a cheap imitation of turtle soup made (according to The Alice... | |
 | Jean Rey - Education - 1963 - 150 pages
...bons comptes font les bons amis. A penny saved is a penny gained. Il n'ya pas de petites économies. Take care of the pence and the pounds will take care of themselves. Les petites économies font les bonnes maisons (appr.). THE LIGHTER SIDE The teacher of... | |
 | Flemming Steen Nielsen - Disputatser - 1997 - 438 pages
...Se f.eks. citatet VIII,9,(71). (35) F.eks. Words, pp.25-30. (36) Ibid., p.25: For example, the rule "Take care of the pence and the pounds will take care of themselves" is evidently not quite true without exception, since another piece of proverbial wisdom... | |
 | Connie Robertson - Humor - 1998 - 404 pages
...of, be sure of this - that you are dreadfully like other people. this LOWNDES William 1652-1724 2608 Take care of the pence, and the pounds will take care of themselves. UIBBOCKJohn 2609 A poor woman from Manchester, on being taken to the seaside, is said to... | |
 | Connie Robertson - Reference - 1998 - 686 pages
...Arthur RM 6602 All zeal runs down. What replaces it? Intellectualism. LOWNDES William 1652-1724 6603 divine despair. 11592 'The Princess' Man is the hunter; themselves. LOWRY Malcolm 1909-1957 6604 Fear ringed by doubt is my eternal moon. I like prefaces.... | |
 | Gaius Valerius Catullus - Literary Criticism - 1998 - 228 pages
...one in line 2), and provides an equivalent touch of alliteration there. One remembers the old saying 'Take care of the pence and the pounds will take care of themselves'; in translation 'the pence' are details like these — the minutiae. But if the text of... | |
 | S. W. Fallon - Reference - 1998 - 336 pages
...! 156 MAR Maqdur kl man kauri hi ragartl hai. The scowering of kauris is the mother of opulence. ( Take care of the pence and the pounds will take care of themselves.) Ma rä che aññ qissa, ki gao amad о Мшг raft ? Per. What is it to me, that a cow... | |
 | Anton Chekhov - Fiction - 1999 - 500 pages
...cold veal and a piece of bread. In our house such sayings as: "A penny saved is a penny gained," and "Take care of the pence and the pounds will take care of themselves," and so on, were frequently repeated, and my sister, weighed down by these vulgar maxims,... | |
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Take care of the pence and the pounds will take care of themselves is as true of personal habits as of money. 
