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" Sloth, like rust, consumes faster than labor wears ; while the used key is always bright, as Poor Richard says. But dost thou love life, then do not squander time, for that is the stuff" life is made of, as Poor Richard says. How much more than is necessary... "
The Complete Works in Philosophy, Politics, and Morals, of the Late Dr ... - Page 448
by Benjamin Franklin - 1806
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Getting on in the World

William Mathews - Success - 1874 - 386 pages
...final and inevitable result will be physical and mental bankruptcy. CHAPTER XVII. ECONOMY OF TIME. Dost thou love life ? Then do not squander time, for that is the stuff life is made of. — FRANKLIN. Think naught a trifle, though it small appear ; Small sands the mountain, moments make...
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Familiar Quotations: Being an Attempt to Trace to Their Source Passages and ...

John Bartlett - Quotations - 1874 - 798 pages
...Life of Doddridge. BENJAMIN FRANKLIN. 1706-1790. God helps them that help themselves.1 Poor Richard. Dost thou love life, then do not squander time, for that is the stuff life is made of. ibid. Plough deep while sluggards sleep. ibid. Never leave that till to-morrow which you can do to-day....
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Public Ledger Almanacs: For the Years 1870, 1871, 1872, 1873, 1874, 1875

Almanacs, American - 1870 - 684 pages
...shortens life. " Sloth, like rust. consumes faster than labor wears, while the used kev is always bright," as poor Richard says. " But dost thou love life? Then...forgetting that " the sleeping fox catches no poultry, ana that there will be sleeping enough in the grave," as poor Richard says. " If time be of all things...
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How Benjamin Franklin, the printer boy, made his mark

William Makepeace Thayer - 1875 - 298 pages
...— " Sloth, like rust, consumes faster than labour wears ; while the used key is always bright." " But dost thou love life ? Then do not squander time, for that is the stuff life is made of." " If time be of all things the most precious, wasting time must be the greatest prodigality." " Sloth...
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Familiar Quotations ...

John Bartlett - Quotations - 1875 - 890 pages
...Book vi. Fable 18. Heaven ne'er helps the men who will not act. Sophocles, Frag. 288, ed. Dindorf. Dost thou love life, then do not squander time, for that is the stuff life is made of. Poor Richard. Plough deep while sluggards sleep. n>id. Never leave that till to-morrow which you can...
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The Indiana Journal of Medicine, Volume 4

1878 - 604 pages
...shortens life. Sloth, like rust, consumes faster than labor wears; while the used key is always bright. Dost thou love life ? Then do not squander time, for that is the stuff life is made of. How much more than is necessary do we spend in sleep and idleness, forgetting that the sleeping fox...
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The edeographic inductive reader, or The art of reporting in a month ..., Part 1

Francis Redfern - 1875 - 80 pages
...much as possible to satisfy. EXERCISE 9. " The noblest motive is the public good." " Dost thou lore life, then do not squander time, for that is the stuff life is made of." — Franklin. " The mind that would be happy must be great — great in its wishes, great in its surveys."...
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Business

James Platt - Business ethics - 1876 - 218 pages
...as society. PUNCTUALITY. " Early to bed, and early to rise, Makes a man healthy, wealthy, and wise." "Dost thou love life? Then do not squander time, for that is the stuff life is made of. The sleeping fox catches no poultry. There will be sleeping enough in the grave. Work to-day, for you...
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Stress Recess: The ABC's

Richard Deforest Erickson - Psychology - 1994 - 108 pages
...Listen to the attitude regarding time expressed by the great (and. admittedly, productive) Ben Franklin: "Dost thou love life? Then do not squander time, for that is the stuff life is made of." and "Remember that time is money." Today we hear this statement often. My purpose for quoting Franklin...
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Living with Stress: Bilical Truths to Manage Your Life

Charles R. Gerber - Christian life - 1999 - 130 pages
...that your life has organization and that you work ahead of time to get things done. Ben Franklin said, "Dost thou love life? Then do not squander time, for that is the stuff life is made of." One important goal is not to procrastinate. Procrastination only produces more stress. Stephen Covey...
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