1. Diligence and frugality will never lead to poverty, and even sitting on a mountain of food will lead to nothing.

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

3. If you don’t know how to save small money, you will spend big money indiscriminately.

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

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

6. Don’t use a bucket to pour out the things accumulated in spoonfuls.

7. Don’t eat the fruits of your hard work in one sitting.

8. If the family has ten thousand stones of food, the pile will not grow long.

9. It is better to kill a cow and eat its meat than to keep it for milking.

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

11. If you want to have enough food and clothing, be diligent and thrifty.

12. Hold hands tightly, every year.

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

14. Thinking ahead and looking behind, food and clothing are often not enough.

15. People wearing tattered cloaks are often good drinkers.

16. Even if you have to harvest thousands of kilos of food, you still have to have a simple meal.

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

18. Pay careful attention to your budget.

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

20. Plan carefully and have food and clothing; eat and drink lavishly, and sell pots in the house.

21. Small wealth comes from frugality, and great wealth comes from heaven.

22. Don’t drink or smoke. You can save countless money in three years.

23. Frugality is the secret to getting rich.

24. Frugality itself is a property.

25. Accumulate small profits and become rich.

26. Frugality is an endless feast in your life.

27. Don’t worry about poverty and lowliness, and don’t dwell on wealth.

28. A porridge or a meal should be thought of as hard-earned, and half a strand of persistent thoughts are hard to come by.

29. Who knows that every piece of food on the plate is hard work.

30. Small wealth comes from frugality, and great wealth comes from heaven.

31. Frugality is the secret to getting rich.

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

33. Saving is glorious, waste is shameful.