Compare Poor Richard's Almanack (1745) : A light purse is a heavy Curse.
Introductio ad prudentiam: Part II (1727), Gnomologia (1732)
“241. A light Purse makes a heavy Heart.”
Thomas Fuller (writer) (1654–1734) British physician, preacher, and intellectual
Compare Poor Richard's Almanack (1733) : Light purse, heavy heart.
Introductio ad prudentiam: Part II (1727), Gnomologia (1732)
“Wealth brings a heavy purse; poverty, a light spirit.”
Leo Tolstoy (1828–1910) Russian writer
Source: Path of Life (1909), p. 88
Act I, scene i.
Eastward Hoe (1605)
“We may fill our purses, but we pay a heavy price for it in the loss of picturesqueness and beauty.”
James Nasmyth (1808–1890) Scottish mechanical engineer and inventor
Source: James Nasmyth engineer, 1883, p. 153 (in 2010 edition)
“It's easy to be heavy; hard to be light.”
Gretchen Rubin (1966) American writer
Source: The Happiness Project: Or Why I Spent a Year Trying to Sing in the Morning, Clean My Closets, Fight Right, Read Aristotle, and Generally Have More Fun
Robert Burns (1759–1796) Scottish poet and lyricist
Ode on Mrs. Oswald.
Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919)
“Sometimes it's better to light a flamethrower than curse the darkness.”
Terry Pratchett (1948–2015) English author
Variant: It's better to light a candle than curse the darkness.
Source: Men at Arms: The Play
“It is better to light a single candle than to curse the darkness.”
Eleanor Roosevelt (1884–1962) American politician, diplomat, and activist, and First Lady of the United States
Variant: Light a candle instead of cursing the darkness.
Source: This is My Story
“A belief is like a guillotine, just as heavy, just as light.”
Franz Kafka book The Zürau Aphorisms
87
The Zürau Aphorisms (1917 - 1918)
Variant: Faith, like a guillotine. As heavy, as light.
“15. Light burthens long borne growe heavie.”
George Herbert (1593–1633) Welsh-born English poet, orator and Anglican priest
Jacula Prudentum (1651)
