I want a house that has got over all its troubles; I don't want to spend the rest of my life bringing up a young and inexperienced house.

-Jerome,Jerome K(lapka)
  They and I, ch.11.

Resolve not to be poor; whatever you have, spend less. Poverty is a great enemy tohumanhappiness; itcertainly destroys liberty, and it makes some virtues impracticable, and others extremely difficult. 446

-Johnson, Samuel known as Dr Johnson
  Letter to Boswell,7 Dec. Quoted in  James Boswell  The Life of Samuel Johnson (1791), vol.4.

Come, my Celia, let us prove, While we can, the sports of love, Time will not be ours for ever, He, at length, our good will sever; Spend not then his gifts in vain: Suns that set may rise again; But if once we lose this light, 'Tis with us perpetual night. Why should we defer our joys? Fame and rumour are but toys.

-Jonson, Ben
  Volpone,'Song', act 3, sc.7.

I want to spend, and spend, and spend!

-Nicholson,Vivian
  Quoted in the Daily Herald, 28 Sep, when asked what her plans were on winning the pools. The words 'Spend, spend, spend!'werelater used as the title of her autobiography andfor a biographical television play by Jack Rosenthal in1977.