One goes to the right, the other to the left; both are wrong, but in different directions.
There is a fault common to all singers. When they're among friends and are asked to sing they don't want to, and when they're not asked to sing they never stop.
An envious man grows lean at another's fatness.
He will always be a slave who does not know how to live upon a little.
He has half the deed done who has made a beginning.
Frugality is one thing, avarice another.