 | Aphorisms and apothegms - 1856 - 570 pages
...farther, beware of little expenses; a small Leak will sink a great Ship. <5ffiUaltJ), — Colton. TT is far more easy to acquire a Fortune like a knave, than to expend, it like a Gentleman. JfljffilcaltJ), — Propertius. La Bruyere. AS Riches and Favour forsake a man, we discover him to... | |
 | Readers - 1884 - 794 pages
...returns. La Fontaine. Weaknesses, so called, are nothing more nor less than vice in disguise. Lamler. It is far more easy to acquire a fortune like a knave than to expend it like a gentleman. Colton. A willing heart adds feathers to the heels, and makes the clown a winged Mercury. Joanna Batllie.... | |
 | James Comper Gray - 1873 - 406 pages
...wealth, but have lost, as they ran, those apples of gold, the mind and the power to enjoy it."-Tupper. "It is far more easy to acquire a fortune like a knave than to expend it like a gentleman." — Corto». cW.Burtilt,MA "The Babeltower of sin is a tower which man builds iu pride, and when its... | |
 | Wesleyan Reform Union of Churches - 1874 - 432 pages
...whirlingworld pressure are bringing on unconsciously this development. — Once a Week. USE OF MONEY. A NOBLE income nobly expended, is no common sight...our income in schemes of ambition, we shall purchase disappoint incut ; if in law, vexation ; if in luxury, disease. What we lend we shall most probably... | |
 | John Ogilvie - Encyclopedias and dictionaries - 1883 - 714 pages
...in payment or in donations; as. we expend money for I'"!.. I. drink, and clothing. It is Tar easier to acquire a fortune like a knave, than to expend it like a gentleman. Cotton. 2. To lay out; to use; to employ; to consume; aa. to expend time, labour.or material; to expend... | |
 | Quotations, English - 1891 - 556 pages
...of wealth is followed by an increase of care, and by an appetite for more. Horace. ACQUISITION OF. It is far more easy to acquire a fortune like a knave than to expend it like a gerftleman. Cotton. Wealth is not acquired, as many persons suppose, by fortunate speculations and... | |
 | P. Garrett - 1892 - 906 pages
...returns. La Fontaine. Weaknesses, so called, are nothing more nor less than vice in disguise. iMvattr. It is far more easy to acquire a fortune like a knave than to expend it like a gentleman. Cotton. A willing heart adds feathers to the heels, and makes the clown a winged Mercury. Joanna Baillie.... | |
 | Maturin Murray Ballou - Quotations, English - 1894 - 604 pages
...perversion of providence ; and yet the generality of men are the worse for their riches. — William Penn. It is far more easy to acquire a fortune like a knave than to expend it like a gentleman. — Colton. Money and time are the heaviest burdens of life, and the unhappiest of all mortals are... | |
 | Louis Klopsch - Quotations, English - 1896 - 382 pages
...edge, cuts himself off from the truest pleasure here, and the highest happiness hereafter. — COLTON. It is far more easy to acquire a fortune like a knave than to expend it like a gentleman. — COLTON. The pulpit and the press have many commonplaces denouncing the thirst for wealth, but if... | |
 | Maxims - 1897 - 176 pages
...27. The man who possesses wealth possesses power, but it is a power to do evil as well as good. 28. It is far more easy to acquire a fortune like a knave than to expend it like a gentleman. 29. There is a vast difference in one's respect for the man who has made himself and the man who has... | |
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It is far more easy to acquire a fortune like a knave than to expend it like a gentleman. 
