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

The covetous spends more than the liberal. [ English Proverb, collected by George Herbert ]

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

You may know by a penny how a shilling spends. [ Proverb ]

Much spends the traveller more than the abider. [ English Proverb, collected by George Herbert ]

Who always buys and sells feels not what he spends. [ Proverb ]

He that spends without regard shall want without pity. [ Proverb ]

Who spends before he thrives, will beg before he thinks. [ Proverb ]

He that gains well and spends well needs no account-book. [ English Proverb, collected by George Herbert ]

He that has but four, and spends five, has no need of a purse. [ Proverb ]

He that spends to his proportion is as brave as a prince, and a prince exceeding that is a prodigal. [ Proverb ]

Man spends his life in reasoning on the past, in complaining of the present, and in trembling for the future. [ Rivarol ]

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 ]