More cost than worship. [ Proverb ]
To command many will cost much. [ Proverb ]
Good words cost no more than bad. [ Proverb ]
A wise man may be kind without cost. [ Proverb ]
The tongue talks at the head's cost. [ English Proverb, collected by George Herbert ]
The cost takes away from the relish. [ French Proverb ]
Bought wit is best, but may cost too much. [ Proverb ]
Good words are worth much and cost little. [ English Proverb, collected by George Herbert ]
Why so large cost, having so short a lease,
Dost thou upon thy fading mansion spend? [ Shakespeare ]
Good words cost nothing, but are worth much. [ Proverb ]
Heaven is a cheap purchase, whatever it cost. [ Proverb ]
When we mean to build,
We first survey the plot, then draw the model;
And when we see the figure of the house,
Then must we rate the cost of the erection;
Which if we find outweighs ability.
What do we then, but draw anew the model
In fewer offices; or, at least, desist
To build at all? [ William Shakespeare ]
Little journeys and good cost bring safe home. [ English Proverb, collected by George Herbert ]
Only a newspaper! Quick read, quick lost.
Who sums the treasure that it carries hence?
Torn, trampled under feet, who counts thy cost,
Star-eyed Intelligence. [ Mary Clemmer ]
Compliments cost nothing, yet many pay dear for them. [ Proverb ]
Choose such pleasures as recreate much and cost little. [ Fuller ]
Experience teaches slowly, and at the cost of mistakes. [ James A. Froude ]
A house ready built never sells for so much as it cost. [ Proverb ]
Cost is the father and compensation is the mother of progress. [ J. G. Holland ]
How much pain the evils have cost us that have never happened!
Old houses mended cost little less than new before they're ended. [ Gibber ]
With cost, good pottage may be made out of a leg of a joint stool. [ Proverb ]
Ever keep thy promise, cost what it may; this it is to be true as steel.
[ Charles Reade ]
If our bodies were to cost no more than our souls, we might board cheap. [ Proverb ]
Learn to hold thy tongue. Five words cost Zacharias forty weeks silence. [ Fuller ]
An individual man is a fruit which it cost all the foregoing ages to form and ripen. [ Ralph Waldo Emerson ]
They teach us to dance; O that they could teach us to blush, did it cost a guinea a glow! [ Madame Deluzy ]
Be saving, but not at the cost of all liberality. Have the soul of a king and the hand of a wise economist. [ Joubert ]
Which of you, intending to build a tower, sitteth not down first and counteth the cost, whether he have sufficient to finish it? [ Bible ]
A strong soil that has produced weeds may be made to produce wheat with far less difficulty than it would cost to make it produce nothing. [ Colton ]
It is a proof of boorishness to confer a favor with a bad grace; it is the act of giving that is hard and painful. How little does a smile cost! [ Bruyere ]
Like one who draws the model of a house beyond his power to build it, who, half through, gives o'er, and leaves his part-created cost a naked subject to the weeping clouds. [ William Shakespeare ]
Compliments of congratulation are always kindly taken, and cost one nothing but pen, ink, and paper. I consider them as draughts upon good breeding, where the exchange is always greatly in favor of the drawer. [ Chesterfield ]
Someone once observed, and the observation did him credit, whoever he was, that the dearest things in the world were neighbors' eyes, for they cost everybody more than anything else contributing to housekeeping. [ Albert Smith ]
Whatever of true glory has been won by any nation of the earth; whatever great advance has been made by any nation in that which constitutes a high Christian civilization, has been always at the cost of sacrifice; has cost the price marked upon it in God's inventory of national good. [ J. G. Holland ]
Propriety of thought and propriety of diction are commonly found together. Obscurity and affectation are the two great faults of style. Obscurity of expression generally springs from confusion of ideas; and the same wish to dazzle, at any cost, which produces affectation in the manner of a writer, is likely to produce sophistry in his reasoning. [ Macaulay ]
Wisdom is a fox who, after long hunting, will at last cost you the pains to dig out; it is a cheese, which, by how much the richer, has the thicker, the homlier, and the coarser coat; and whereof to a judicious palate, the maggots are best. It is a sack posset, wherein the deeper you go, you'll find it the sweeter. Wisdom is a hen, whose cackling we must value and consider, because it is attended with an egg. But lastly, it is a nut, which, unless you choose with judgment, may cost you a tooth, and pay you with nothing but a worm. [ Swift ]
Today it is all of sixty years since I began to smoke the limit. I have never bought cigars with life-belts around them. I early found that those were too expensive for me: I have always bought cheap cigars - reasonably cheap, at any rate. Sixty years ago they cost me four dollars a barrel, but my taste has improved, latterly, and I pay seven, now. Six or seven. Seven, I think. Yes; it's seven. But that includes the barrel. I often have smoking-parties at my house; but the people that come have always just taken the pledge. I wonder why that is? [ Mark Twain, Seventieth Birthday speech ]