Too late to spare
When the bottom is bare. [ Proverb ]
Spare to speak spare to speed. [ Proverb ]
Spare the rod and spoil the child. [ Proverb ]
Spare the person, but lash the vice. [ Martial ]
Spare your rhetoric and speak logic. [ Proverb ]
Spare your breath to cool your broth. [ Proverb ]
Spare at the brim, not at the bottom. [ Proverb ]
Spare, woodman, spare the beechen tree! [ Campbell ]
Spare your breath to cool your porridge. [ Cervantes ]
Spare the paper which is fated to perish. [ Adapted from Juvenal ]
Wise is the man prepared for either end,
Who in due measure can both spare and spend. [ Lucian ]
Sense of pleasure we may well
Spare out of life perhaps, and not repine.
But live content, which is the calmest life;
But pain is perfect misery, the worst
Of evils, and excessive, overturns All patience. [ Milton ]
As this auspicious day began the race
Of every virtue join'd with every grace;
May you, who own them, welcome its return,
Till excellence, like yours, again is born.
The years we wish, will half your charms impair;
The years we wish the better half will spare;
The victims of your eyes will bleed no more,
But all the beauties of your mind adore. [ Jeffrey ]
He that has nothing to spare must not keep a dog. [ Proverb ]
If satire charms, strike faults, but spare the man. [ Young ]
To spare at a spigot, and let run out at the bung-hole. [ Proverb ]
Exercise the muscles well, but spare the nerves always. [ Arthur Schopenhauer ]
Better spare to have of thine own than ask of other men. [ English Proverb, collected by George Herbert ]
They (obliged by law) spare a mill, but steal a province!
Use a spare diet; and thus cut off the enemies' provisions. [ Dr. Tronchin ]
Those who make the best use of their time have none to spare. [ Proverb ]
It is as great a mischief to spare all, as it is cruelty to spare none. [ Proverb ]
Time is like money; the less we have of it to spare, the further we make it go. [ H. W. Shaw ]
Life is too short to spare an hour of it in the indulgence of this evil passion. [ Lamartine ]
I cannot spare the luxury of believing that all things beautiful are what they seem. [ Halleck ]
All censure of a man's self is oblique praise; it is in order to show how much he can spare. [ Johnson ]
Believe me, the gods spare the afflicted, and do not always oppress those who are unfortunate. [ Ovid ]
Dim sadness did not spare that time celestial visages; yet, mixed with pity, violated not their bliss. [ Milton ]
Intemperate wits will spare neither friend nor foe, and make themselves the common enemies of mankind. [ L'Estrange ]
These shall be thy arts, to lay down the law of peace, to spare the conquered, and to subdue the proud. [ Virgil ]
The philosophy of princes is to dive into the secrets of men, leaving the secrets of nature to those that have spare time. [ English Proverb, collected by George Herbert ]
Vicissitudes of fortune, which spare neither man nor the proudest of his works, which bury empires and cities in a common grave. [ Gibbon ]
He that is sensible of no evil but what he feels, has a hard heart; and he that can spare no kindness from himself, has a narrow soul. [ Collier ]
Female beauties are as fickle in their faces as in their minds; though casualties should spare them, age brings in a necessity of decay. [ Boyle ]
Go on, spare no invectives, but open the spout of your eloquence, and see with what a calm, connubial resignation I will both hear and bow to the chastisement. [ Colley Cibber ]
It seems that nature, which has so wisely disposed our bodily organs with a view to our happiness, has also bestowed on us pride, to spare us the pain of being aware of our imperfections. [ Rochefoucauld ]
This is the part of a great man, after he has maturely weighed all circumstances, to punish the guilty, to spare the many, and in every state of fortune not to depart from an upright, virtuous conduct. [ Cicero ]
Of riches it is not necessary to write the praise. Let it, however, be remembered that he who has money to spare has it always in his power to benefit others, and of such power a good man must always be desirous. [ Johnson ]
Love in modern times has been the tailor's best friend. Every suitor of the nineteenth century spends more than his spare cash on personal adornment. A faultless fit, a glistening hat, tight gloves, and tighter boots proclaim the imminent peril of his position. [ G. A. Sala ]
The first wealth is health. Sickness is poor-spirited, and cannot serve any one; it must husband its resources to live. But health or fullness answers its own ends, and has to spare, runs over, and inundates the neighborhoods and creeks of other men's necessities. [ Emerson ]