Never get involved in a land war in Asia.
"Not my circus, not my monkeys."
My life became infinitely better once I understood that saying.
If you but cheap, you buy twice.
I've heard this out two ways:
Buy nice or buy twice
And when paying for the more expensive
Buy once cry once
I've heard this too and it's true, but also you don't want to needlessly spend on things either. For example, a good bed is worth the cost, the saying holds up. However, if you buy the pro version of every tool you'll go broke. You can instead buy the cheap one first, anything you use enough where it would break is then worth buying the expensive one
Someone told me 25 years ago to buy a cheap set of tools, and then buy a good version of the ones that break. Many you'll never use enough to break or at all. But that fn 10mm socket, it's going to break and need a good one no matter what
It's mostly true, but not true often enough that makes it worth to buy cheap (and possibly twice), hoping for the lucky inexpensive quality item, then to buy nice, hoping you won't have to buy it twice anyway cause it was just overpriced.
Also agree on what others suggested: buy cheap first, then if it breaks, buy quality.
One in the hand is worth two in the bush.
A gram of prevention is worth a kilogram of cure.
You are what you eat.
Three can keep a secret if two of them are dead.
You use this a lot nicerdicer?
They'd tell you, but...
Conservatism is just regression.
Waste not, want not.
