I'm frugal. I've always been this way. When I was young, my mom would give me my allowance, and I'd peel off a little each week and have some to spare.
The great Emathian conqueror bid spare The house of Pindarus, when temple and tower Went to the ground.
Oh! thou who are greatly mad, deign to spare me who am less mad.
For their [the children’s] learning, be liberal. Spare no cost, for by such parsimony all is lost that is saved
Nothing is more common than energy in money-making, quite independent of any higher object than its accumulation. A man who devotes himself to this pursuit, body and soul, can scarcely fail to become rich. Very little brains will do; spend less than you earn; add guinea to guinea; scrape and save; and the pile of gold will gradually rise.
One spares old people just as one spares children.
A penny spar'd is twice got.
Meanness inherits a set of silverware and keeps it in the bank. Economy uses it only on important occasions, for fear of loss. Thrift sets the table with it every night for pure pleasure, but counts the butter spreaders before they are put away.
If you squander on a holyday, you will want on a workday unless you have been sparing.
I race kind of sparingly.
... me He now delights to spare.
This was just one of many times God has spared me.
No author ever spar'd a brother.
Better spare to have of thine own, then aske of other men. [Better spare to have of thine own than ask of other men.]
The prospect of penury in age is so gloomy and terrifying that every man who looks before him must resolve to avoid it; and it must be avoided generally by the science of sparing.
We had to take off our shoes after school to save wear on the soles.
Eric turned to me, kissed me on the lips very lightly, and looked at my face for a long moment. “He’ll spare you,” Eric said, and I understood he wasn’t really talking to me but to himself. “You’re too unique to waste.” And then he opened the door.
