...money,' as men say ? No, no ; I have rather spent what I had. Remember the fine old saying, Alex ; ' What I spent I had ; what I saved I lost ; what I gave I have. How true ! Yellow dust ! Just yellow dust, when all is said and done. Why, children, I will give any...

...' interest and principal.' 5. dispensatorem : treasurer, as in XI. xxxix. 6. 7-8. Cp. the saying, ' What I spent, I had ; what I saved, I lost ; what I gave, I have,' the motto of Watts' picture, ' Sic transit gloria mundi '. xliii. Laecania's teeth are white, Thais'...

...meaning of the motto which became the title of one of George Frederick Watts' most famous pictures, "What I spent, I had; what I saved, I lost; what I gave, I have." And now (as perhaps you are not all familiar with it) I quote the noble confession of faith which the...

...earthly things, of the motto which he had illustrated, and which I had had engraved on a silver purse : " What I spent, I had, What I saved, I lost, What I gave, I have." When I told him that on handing the purse to Mr Ruskin he had taken a penknife, and, without speaking,...

...your substance in the best bank. Giving is true having, as the old gravestone said of the dead man: "What I spent I had, what I saved I lost, what I gave I have." — CH SPURGEON. Learn the luxury of doing good. — GOLDSMITH. By doing good with his money, a man,...

...were royal in giving. He told her he was about to paint a picture, taking as his subject the words, " What I spent I had, what I saved I lost, what I gave I have." She made him repeat the words, and said, " Thank you, you have given a weapon into my hands," and they...

...the great symbolical works is called "Sic Transit Gloria Mundi!" the canvas inscribed with the lines; "What I spent, I had ! What I saved, I lost! What I gave, I have!" A shrouded figure lies on a slab of marble in a dun aisle of a vast cathedral, while at the foot are grouped the...

...finds relief at last; the noble recumbent figure of "The Dead Warrior" with its pregnant inscription : "What I spent, I had; what I saved, I lost; what I gave, I have"; "The Happy Warrior," who, dying in the discharge of duty, finds a beautiful angel bending above him...

...presence at his side, felt rather than seen, came the answer: "Read the painted words above the warrior" : What I spent I had What I saved I lost What I gave I have. To those who have not looked into the matter, poetry would seem to have as little place at the front...

...Watts, in the Tate Gallery (National Gallery of British Art) in London, the artist inscribed — " What I spent, I had. What I saved, I lost. What I gave, I have." Francis Quarles probably had a similar idea in mind when he wrote the puzzle verses — "The goods...