Cut your coat according to your cloth.
— from Dictionary of Quotations from Ancient and Modern, English and Foreign Sources Including Phrases, Mottoes, Maxims, Proverbs, Definitions, Aphorisms, and Sayings of Wise Men, in Their Bearing on Life, Literature, Speculation, Science, Art, Religion, and Morals, Especially in the Modern Aspects of Them by Wood, James, Rev.

Nothing like having your bill the first morning, and then you know what you've got to pay, and can cut your coat according to your cloth.
— from Jorrocks' Jaunts and Jollities by Robert Smith Surtees

"You ought to have cut your coat according to your cloth," he responded.
— from Jack's Ward; Or, The Boy Guardian by Alger, Horatio, Jr.

True taste, as well as common sense, would say, “cut your coat according to your cloth”—build your house and decorate it according to what you can spend upon it: let it represent your own ideas of taste and comfort, after due thought, and not be an imitation of another’s, or of something in the mode which you think you ought to like, neither something costly because of the cost, or a cheap imitation of something costly.
— from Ideals in Art: Papers Theoretical, Practical, Critical by Walter Crane

Cut your coat according to your cloth, is an old maxim and a wise one; and if people will only square their ideas according to their circumstances, how much happier might we all be!
— from Olla Podrida by Frederick Marryat

“You must cut your coat according to your cloth,” answered John Temple, smiling.
— from A Country Sweetheart by Dora Russell

"Cut your coat according to your cloth," is a maxim of which the applicability is not yet exhausted.
— from The Catholic World, Vol. 01, April to September, 1865 A Monthly Eclectic Magazine by Various

Here take the old stale maxim into immediate and constant use, "Cut your coat according to your cloth;" and, if you are a man of only £2000 a-year, do not build a house on a plan that will require £10,000 at least of annual income to keep the window-shutters open.
— from Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 61, No. 380, June, 1847 by Various