suit oneself

Idioms  

1. Do as one pleases, as in We had expected you, but if you don't want to come, suit yourself. This idiom, which uses suit in the sense of “be agreeable or convenient,” is often put as an imperative. [Late 1800s]

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That one must suit oneself in life is a very popular rule of wisdom.

From Pictures of German Life in the XVIIIth and XIXth Centuries, Vol. I. by Gustav Freytag

"It may not be easy for me to visit Drumtochty often, for you know there has been a change … in our circumstances, and one must suit oneself to it."

From Kate Carnegie and Those Ministers by Ian Maclaren

One would say that to dress to suit oneself would be more becoming to men and women.

From Love at Second Sight by Ada Leverson

Why try every one by the standards that suit oneself?

From The Research Magnificent by H. G. (Herbert George) Wells