To balance fortune by a just expense.
Join with Economy, Magnificence. [ Pope ]
The greatest expense we have is our time. [ Proverb ]
A man must become wise at his own expense. [ Montaigne ]
Avoid witticisms at the expense of others. [ Horace Mann ]
Fancy and pride seek things at vast expense. [ Young ]
He who seeks for gain must be at some expense. [ Plautus ]
Taste is pursued at a less expense than fashion. [ Shenstone ]
Gain at the expense of reputation is manifest loss. [ Publius Syrus ]
Expense of time is the most costly of all expenses. [ Theophrastus ]
Avarice fills its purse at the expense of its belly. [ Haliburton ]
Gain at the expense of credit must be set down as loss. [ Proverb ]
We may say his wit shines at the expense of his memory. [ Le Sage ]
Economy is an excellent lure to betray people into expense. [ Zimmermann ]
To jest at the expense of philosophy is truly to philosophise. [ Pascal ]
To warm one's self in the sun (at the expense of the good god). [ Motto ]
Every flatterer lives at the expense of him who listens to him. [ La Fontaine ]
And one may say that his wit shines at the expense of his memory. [ Alain Rene Le Sage ]
Be not so bigoted to any custom as to worship at the expense of truth. [ Zimmermann ]
A certain degree of soul is indispensable to save us the expense of salt. [ Ben Jonson ]
To breed up the son to commonsense is evermore the parent's least expense. [ Dryden ]
To some purpose is that man wise who gains his wisdom at another's expense. [ Plautus ]
Distinction is an eminence that is attained but too frequently at the expense of a fireside. [ Simms ]
It is better to sacrifice one's love of sarcasm than to indulge it at the expense of a friend.
It is better to live by begging one's bread than to gratify the mouth at the expense of others. [ Hitopadesa ]
No idea can succeed except at the expense of sacrifices; no one ever escapes without a stain from the struggle of life. [ Renan ]
If we did not take great pains, and were not at great expense to corrupt our nature, our nature would never corrupt us. [ Clarendon ]
To no man, whatever his station in life, or his power to serve me, have I ever paid a compliment at the expense of truth. [ Burns ]
Wine takes away reason, engenders insanity, leads to thousands of crimes, and imposes such an enormous expense on nations. [ Pliny ]
I cannot imagine why we should be at the expense to furnish wit for succeeding ages, when the former have made no sort of provision for ours. [ Swift ]
Never build after you are five and forty; have five years' income in hand before you lay a brick; and always calculate the expense at double the estimate. [ Kett ]
The amiable is a duty most certainly, but must not be exercised at the expense of any of the virtues. He who seeks to do the amiable always, can only be successful at the frequent expense of his manhood. [ Simms ]
As to pay, sir, I beg leave to assure the Congress that as no pecuniary consideration could have tempted me to accept this arduous employment at the expense of my domestic ease and happiness, I do not wish to make any profit from it. [ George Washington ]
We may scatter the seeds of courtesy and kindness around us at so little expense. Some of them will inevitably fall on good ground, and grow up into benevolence in the minds of others; and all of them will bear fruit of happiness in the bosom whence they spring. [ Bentham ]
No one was ever the better for advice: in general, what we called giving advice was properly taking an occasion to show our own wisdom at another's expense; and to receive advice was little better than tamely to afford another the occasion of raising himself a character from our defects. [ Lord Shaftesbury ]
There was a proposition in a township there to discontinue public schools because they were too expensive. An old farmer spoke up and said if they stopped the schools they would not save anything, because every time a school was closed a jail had to be built. It's like feeding a dog on his own tail. He'll never get fat. I believe it is better to support schools than jails. [ Mark Twain, "Public Education Association" Speech ]
The reputation of generosity is to be purchased pretty cheap; it does not depend so much upon a man's general expense, as it does upon his giving handsomely where it is proper to give at all. A man, for instance, who should give a servant four shillings would pass for covetous, while he who gave him a crown would be reckoned generous; so that the difference of those two opposite characters turns upon one shilling. [ Chesterfield ]