When I see that the Prince of Wales is three hundred thousand dollars in debt, notwithstanding his enormous income, I am forcibly reminded that it is not the amount of money a man gets that makes him well off, but the margin between the income and the outgo.
"Around The Tea-Table"
T. De Witt Talmage
It was not the outgo that counted, but the receipts.
"One Woman's Life"
Robert Herrick
But in the same space we shall nowhere find anything that can outgo the passage beginning "Alas what boots it," down to "head of thine," and the whole conclusion from "Return Alpheus."
"A History of English Literature Elizabethan Literature"
George Saintsbury