A dictionary of Proverbs (Oxford Paperback Reference)

CUT your coat according to your cloth
Actions should suit circumstances or resources. Also common as the metaphorical phrase to cut one’s coat according to one’s cloth.

• 
  1546 J. HEYWOOD Dialogue of Proverbs I. viii. C1 I shall Cut my cote after my cloth. 1580 LYLY Euphues & his England II. 188 Be neither prodigall to spende all, nor couetous to keepe all, cut thy coat according to thy cloth. 1778 G. WASHINGTON Writings (1936) XIII. 79 General McIntoch.. must.. yield to necessity; that is, to use a vulgar phraze, ‘shape his Coat according to his Cloth’. 1951 ‘P. WENTWORTH ’ Miss Silver comes to Stay xxxvii. ‘You must cut your coat according to your cloth.’ .. ‘My trouble is that I do like the most expensive cloth.’ 1974 T. SHARPE Porterhouse Blue iii. I’m afraid the.. exigencies of our financial position do impose certain restraints. .. A case of cutting our coats to suit our cloth. ■ circumstances; poverty; thrift
  

cut see also (participial adjective) a SLICE off a cut loaf isn’t missed; (verb) DIAMOND cuts diamond; MEASURE seven times, cut once; MEASURE twice, cut once; THINK twice, cut once.
daisy see it is not SPRING until you can plant your foot upon twelve daisies.
damned see CORPORATIONS have neither bodies to be punished nor souls to be damned.
They that DANCE must pay the fiddler
Cf. he who PAYS the piper calls the tune, where the emphasis is reversed. To pay the piper (fiddler, etc.) means ‘to bear the cost (of an enterprise)’. The proverb is now predominantly found in US use.

• 
  1638 J. TAYLOR Taylor’s Feast in Works (1876) 94 One of the Fidlers said, Gentlemen, I pray you to remember the Musicke [musicians], you have given us nothing yet. .. Alwayes those that dance must pay the Musicke. 1837 A. LINCOLN Speech 11 Jan. in Works (1953) I. 64 I am decidedly opposed to the people’s money being used to pay the fiddler. It is an old maxim and a very sound one, that he that dances should always pay the fiddler. a 1957 L. I. WILDER First Four Years (1971) i. Laura was going to have a baby. .. She remembered a saying of her mother’s: ‘They that dance must pay the fiddler.’ "action and consequence