Famous aphorisms about thrift

1. Knowledge comes from diligence, and wealth comes from thrift.

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

3. It will not be difficult to collect change when the time comes.

4. A gentleman uses frugality to overcome difficulties. General idea: A gentleman uses the virtue of frugality to avoid danger.

5. The mouth is a bottomless pit. A big meal is better than a small gamble.

6. Building a family is like picking up dirt with a needle, and losing a family is like wading through the sand.

7. Frugality and diligence are two famous doctors of mankind. ——Rousseau

8. Diligence and frugality make life sweet and sweet.

9. Frugality leads to prosperity, while immorality leads to ruin. General idea: Frugality will lead to prosperity, and lascivious pleasure will lead to ruin.

10. Save money on cigarettes and alcohol, and seek help in times of emergency.

11. Contentment is natural wealth, luxury is artificial poverty.

12. There is storage every year, and there will be no shortage of people in famine years.

13. Laughing at the dirty things will make you laugh at them, but you will not laugh at them.

14. A porridge and a meal should be remembered as hard-earned; half a thread and half a strand should be kept in mind that material resources are difficult.

15. Small water flows every year, but eating and drinking will not last long.

16. Luxury is like wine, which both excites and debilitates people. ——Karl

17. One or two coals, one piece of charcoal, can add up to a lot of cooked rice.

18. Save money on meals, save money on clothes every day.

19. Sow in spring and reap in autumn. Save now for future use.

20. If you don’t have enough food, you won’t have enough clothes. If you don’t plan, you will suffer from poverty.

21. Gold has no seeds, it comes from thrifty families.

22. Any saving is ultimately a saving of time. ——Marx

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

24. Think before and after, and always have enough food and clothing.

25. There are thousands of hectares of fertile land, and one liter of solar eclipse. There are thousands of rooms in the mansion, and seven feet of sleeping space at night.

26. Diligence without thrift is like having a needle but no thread.

27. Hold hands tightly, every year.

28. Frugality can help integrity.

29. Those who are extravagant and lazy will be poor, while those who are strong and thrifty will be rich. ——Han Fei

30. Frugality is the greatest virtue; extravagance is the greatest evil.

31. Small things don’t mean money is empty. —— Thomas More

32. If you cherish your clothes, you will have clothes to wear; if you cherish your food, you will have food to eat.

33. Three years of new life, three years of old life, and another three years of mending.

34. A simple diet is a blessing.

35. There is a bottomless pit of waste, and you will have nothing to lose.

36. One and a half stars equals 20% of a catty.

37. The inevitable consequence of luxury is the disintegration of customs, which in turn causes the corruption of taste.

38. Coins are round, so they roll away easily. ——Torrian

39. It is easy to go from frugality to luxury, but it is difficult to go from luxury to frugality. General idea: It is easy to go from frugality to luxury, but it is difficult to go from luxury to frugality.

40. Ten spoons make a bowl of rice.

41. Be diligent in your country and frugal in your family. General idea: Be diligent in national affairs and frugal in family life.

42. Go out and walk to check the wind direction, dress and eat, and measure your belongings.

43. Save money and avoid asking for help.

44. Be frugal in food and clothing.

45. How much you save is how much you get. ——Denmark

46. Arranging time reasonably is equivalent to saving time. ——Bacon

47. The drizzle soaked the clothes, and the glasses were spilled and the possessions were ruined.

48. If you plan carefully for half a year, you will not suffer in bad years.

49. Production is like a money tree, and conservation is like a cornucopia.

50. Saving time is extending life.

51. Frugality is an endless feast in your life. ——Emerson

52. A porridge and a meal, when you think about the difficulty of getting there; half a thread, half a wisp, constant thought of material difficulties.

53. Those who are extravagant are in ruins, while those who are frugal are safe. One bad thing and one good thing are in front of you.

——Bai Juyi

54. Luxury will destroy people's spiritual purity, because unfortunately, the more you get, the more greedy you become, and you always feel that you cannot satisfy yourself. ——Angel

55. If you want to spend it, you should spend ten dollars; if you should not spend it, you should save one dollar.

56. Sailing a boat depends on steering, and managing a house depends on thrift.

57. If the food is not good enough, it can satisfy the hunger; if the body is not rich, it can be covered up.

58. Saving time means extending life.

59. A porridge and a meal are exchanged for beads of sweat.

60. If the water flows slowly, there will be no worries in case of disaster.

61. Luxury is the death of morality.

62. Don’t think about living in peace and be prepared for danger, abstain from extravagance and be frugal; cut down the roots in order to seek luxuriant trees, stop the source in order to have a long flow of water. ——Wei Zheng

63. Save money when there is a shortage, save money when there is a shortage, and save when there is a shortage.

64. When food is put into warehouses, don’t forget disasters and famines.

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

66. Cloth robes and straw shoes are wind and cold resistant.

67. Truth is the most valuable of all our possessions, so let us save it.

68. If you take it in moderation and use it in moderation, you will always have enough. General idea: If you ask for things in a planned way and consume in a controlled way, you will always be rich.

69. If you don’t save in winter, you will have to worry about spring; if you don’t work in summer, you will have no harvest in autumn.

70. When it comes to eating, it’s home-cooked meals, and when it comes to wearing coarse clothes.

71. Arranging time reasonably is equivalent to saving time. ——Bacon

72. Save and save, accumulate a little and make a lot, one drop or two, merge into a river.

73. Eat and drink big and consider the present, and live frugally to survive the famine.

74. Clothing is only worn out.

75. No matter how much grain you have, you still need to prepare several pots of wild vegetables.

76. If you are diligent and frugal, your granary will be filled with food, but if you are extravagant, your granary will be empty.

77. Save a bite a day, a bucket a year.

78. Use money when you have benefits, and use money when you have hardships.

79. It is better to eat than to eat thousands.

80. Don’t forget the hardship of farmers when eating, and don’t forget the busyness of workers when dressing.

81. People’s livelihood depends on diligence, but diligence will lead to failure.

82. Borrowing clothes from others is not neat.

83. Waste is expenditure, saving is income.

84. Frugality is natural wealth, luxury is artificial poverty.

85. Being good at selecting key points means saving time, but rushing around without knowing the key points is equivalent to firing empty cannons indiscriminately. ——Bacon

86. Only compete with others in farming, don’t compete with others in celebrating the New Year.

87. Good rain falls in the deserted fields. (www.lz13.cn)

88. If you have a rich family, you don’t light up the lights.

89. Save rice today, save oil tomorrow, and buy a big ox next year.

90. If the water flows slowly, you will have no worries about food and clothing.

91. Common clothes are warm and vegetables are fragrant.

92. Don’t neglect saving, as a small amount can add up to tens of millions. ——Fan Jiting

93. Eating and dressing depends on the family fortune.

94. The journey of a gentleman is to cultivate one’s character through tranquility, and to cultivate virtue through frugality. If it is not indifferent, it will not clear its aspirations, and if it is not tranquil, it will not be far-reaching. ——Zhuge Liang

95. Money is worth tens of thousands of dollars a piece, and wheat is a precious stone.