To waste one's breath; to pump into a sieve.
Let not your expenditure exceed your income.
It is good to love in a moderate degree; to distraction, it is not good; but to love to entire distraction, is the thing that my master's doing.
The fool too late, his substance eaten up, reckons the cost.
Know this, that troubles come swifter than the things we desire.
Men understand the worth of blessings only when they have lost them.