Another's bread costs dear. [ English Proverb, collected by George Herbert ]
Money often costs too much. [ Ralph Waldo Emerson ]
What comes by kind costs nothing. [ Proverb ]
What costs little is less esteemed. [ Proverb ]
It is good beef that costs nothing. [ Proverb ]
Politeness costs little and yields much. [ Mme. de Lambert ]
It costs more to do ill than to do well. [ English Proverb, collected by George Herbert ]
There is nothing costs less than civility. [ Cervantes ]
Nothing costs so much as what is given us. [ Proverb ]
Civility costs nothing, and buys everything. [ M. Wortley Montagu ]
Sometimes it costs a great deal to do mischief. [ Proverb ]
Lip honour costs little, yet may bring in much. [ Proverb ]
Pride costs us more than hunger, thirst, and cold.
That man is well bought who costs but a salutation. [ Proverb ]
It costs more to satisfy a vice than to feed a family. [ Balzac ]
Passion costs too much to bestow it upon every trifle. [ Rev. Thomas Adam ]
Wine that costs nothing is digested before it be drunk. [ English Proverb, collected by George Herbert ]
It costs us more to revenge injuries than to bear them. [ Proverb ]
Men are very generous with that which costs them nothing. [ Proverb ]
The maintaining of one vice, costs more than ten virtues. [ Proverb ]
A good word for a bad one is worth much, and costs little. [ Proverb ]
The distance is nothing; it is only the first step that costs. [ Mme. du Deffand ]
Advice is like kissing: it costs nothing and is a pleasant thing to do. [ H. W. Shaw ]
You may be liberal in your praise where praise is due: it costs nothing; it encourages much. [ Horace Mann ]
Prosperity is very liable to bring pride among the other goods with which it endows an individual; it is then that prosperity costs too dear. [ Hosea Ballou ]
High birth is a gift of fortune which should never challenge esteem towards those who receive it, since it costs then neither study nor labor. [ Bruyere ]
People seldom read a book which is given to them; and few are given. The way to spread a work is to sell it at a low price. No man will send to buy a thing that costs even sixpence without an intention to read it. [ Johnson ]