1. Success comes from diligence and frugality, and destruction comes from luxury.

2. Diligence and thrift will never lead to poverty, and even sitting on a mountain of food will mean nothing.

3. It is easy to go from frugality to luxury, but it is difficult to go from luxury to frugality.

4. If you don’t know how to save small money, you will spend big money indiscriminately. (UK)

5. A married man’s excrement is like treasure; a prodigal son’s money is like grass.

6. There is nothing extravagant at the moment, but the sun and the moon will be empty in the future.

7. Don’t use a bucket to pour out the things accumulated in spoonfuls. (Kazakh)

8. Don’t eat the fruits of your hard work in one sitting. (Uyghur)

9. If a family has ten thousand stones of food, it will not last long.

10. It is better to kill a cow and eat its meat than to keep it for milking. (Tibetan)

11. Show off when you have money, and go hungry when you have no money.

12. If you want to have enough food and clothing, diligence and thrift are the most important thing.

13. Diligence can make up for clumsiness, and saving can make up for poverty.

14. Thinking before and after, food and clothing are often in trouble.

15. Budget carefully and keep making money.

16. People wearing tattered cloaks are often good drinkers. (Spain)

17. Even if you have to harvest thousands of pounds of food, you still need a simple diet.

18. Those who know how to eat will eat a thousand meals, and those who can’t eat will eat one meal.

19. Budget carefully and keep making money.

20. People wearing tattered cloaks are often good drinkers.

(Spain)

21. Even if you have to harvest thousands of pounds of food, you still need simple meals

22. Those who know how to eat will eat a thousand meals, and those who don’t know how to eat will eat one meal

23. Plan carefully and have food and clothing; eat and drink extravagantly and sell pot as a pawn