Spend,
And God will send. [ Proverb ]

To gain teacheth how to spend. [ English Proverb, collected by George Herbert ]

Spend and be free, but make no waste. [ Proverb ]

Who more than he is worth does spend,
He makes a rope his life to end. [ Proverb ]

Who spends more than he should,
Shall not have to spend when he would. [ Proverb ]

His noble hand did win what he did spend. [ William Shakespeare ]

Never spend your money before you have it.

He spends best that spares to spend again. [ Proverb ]

Oh! I have pass'd a miserable night.
So full of ugly sights, of ghastly dreams.
That, as I am a Christian faithful man,
I would not spend another such a night
Though 'twere to buy a world of happy days. [ William Shakespeare ]

Why so large cost, having so short a lease,
Dost thou upon thy fading mansion spend? [ Shakespeare ]

Wise is the man prepared for either end,
Who in due measure can both spare and spend. [ Lucian ]

He that gets an estate will probably never spend it. [ Proverb ]

He will spend a whole year's rent at one meal's meat. [ English Proverb, collected by George Herbert ]

To live is not to spend or waste time, but to employ it. [ Proverb ]

A fool may make money, but it takes a wise man to spend it. [ Proverb ]

It is delightful to spend one's time in the tillage of the fields. [ Ovid ]

The Jews spend at Easter, the Moors at marriages, the Christians in suits. [ English Proverb, collected by George Herbert ]

If you know how to spend less than you get, you have the philosopher's stone. [ Benjamin Franklin ]

We spend our days in deliberating, and we end them without coming to any resolve. [ L'Estrange ]

Economy is half the battle of life; it is not so hard to earn money as to spend it well. [ Rev. C. H. Spurgeon ]

In general, those who have nothing to say contrive to spend the longest time in doing it. [ Lowell ]

We should employ our passions in the service of life, not spend life in the service of our passions. [ Richard Steele ]

Cowardice encroaches fast upon such as spend their lives in company of persons higher than themselves. [ Dr. Johnson ]

That hour is coming, when we shall more earnestly wish to gain time, than ever we studied to spend it. [ Proverb ]

In eternal cares we spend our years, ever agitated by new desires: we look forward to living, and yet never live. [ Fontanelle ]

All of us who are worth anything spend our manhood in unlearning the follies or expiating the mistakes of our youth. [ Shelley ]

The reason why so few marriages are happy is because young ladies spend their time in making nets, not in making cages. [ Swift ]

Many men and women spend their lives in unsuccessful attempts to spin the flax God sends them upon a wheel they can never use. [ J. G. Holland ]

Those who attain any excellence commonly spend life in one common pursuit; for excellence is not often gained upon easier terms. [ Johnson ]

Twenty people can gain money for one who can use it; and the vital question for individuals and for nations, is never how much do they make, but to what purpose do they spend. [ John Ruskin ]

It is a good and safe rule to sojourn in every place, as if you meant to spend your life there, never omitting an opportunity of doing a kindness, or speaking a true word, or making a friend. [ Ruskin ]

Most women spend their lives in robbing the old tree from which Eve plucked the first fruit. And such is the attraction of this fruit, that the most honest woman is not content to die without having tasted it. [ O. Feuillet ]

What a man does with his wealth depends upon his idea of happiness. Those who draw prizes in life are apt to spend tastelessly, if not viciously; not knowing that it requires as much talent to spend as to make. [ Whipple ]

Don't waste your life in doubts and fears: spend yourself on the work before you, well assured that the right performance of this hour's duties will be the best preparation for the hours or ages that follow it. [ Ralph Waldo Emerson ]

Men spend their lives in anticipations, in determining to be vastly happy at some period or other, when they have time. But the present time has one advantage over every other - it is our own. Past opportunities are gone, future are not come. [ Colton ]

I respect the man who knows distinctly what he wishes. The greater part of all the mischief in the world arises from the fact that men do not sufficiently understand their own aims. They have undertaken to build a tower, and spend no more labor on the foundation than would be necessary to erect a hut. [ Goethe ]

A wise man will select his books, for he would not wish to class them all under the sacred name of friends. Some can be accepted only as acquaintances. The best books of all kinds are taken to the heart, and cherished as his most precious possessions. Others to be chatted with for a time, to spend a few pleasant hours with, and laid aside, but not forgotten. [ Langford ]

It was the saying of a great man, that if we could trace our descents, we should find all slaves to come from princes, and all princes from slaves; and fortune has turned all things topsy-turvy in a long series of revolutions; beside, for a man to spend his life in pursuit of a title, that serves only when he dies to furnish out an epitaph, is below a wise man's business. [ Seneca ]

To be honest, to be kind, to earn a little, and to spend a little less, to make upon the whole a family happier for his presence, to renounce when that shall be necessary and not to be embittered, to keep a few friends, but these without capitulation; above all, on the same condition, to keep friends with himself: here is a task for all a man has of fortitude and delicacy. [ Robert Louis Stevenson ]

If I were to choose the people with whom I would spend my hours of conversation, they should be certainly such as labored no further than to make themselves readily and clearly apprehended, and would have patience and curiosity to understand me. To have good sense and ability to express it are the most essential and necessary qualities in companions. When thoughts rise in us fit to utter among familiar friends, there needs but very little care in clothing them. [ Steele ]