Happiness.

Meaning: Enjoyment pushed too far can become unpleasant. Surfeiting turns a welcome experience into an excess that defeats its original pleasure.

Meaning: The phrase points to the part of a situation that makes it amusing. It signals a payoff or irony rather than explaining the joke on its own.

Meaning: The saying values what makes living welcome, rather than mere duration. Liking can point to chosen interests and relationships, but the phrase should not demand constant enjoyment or suggest that pain, grief or limited choices make a life less worthy.

Meaning: The saying dismisses enjoyment of small things as evidence of a small mind. A constructive reading questions that judgement: an ordinary pleasure need not reveal limited understanding, and the value of an experience cannot be settled by how impressive it looks.

Meaning: A supportive partnership can make difficulties easier to carry and pleasures richer to share. Halving and doubling give mutual support a memorable numerical image.

Meaning: Enjoyment and good judgement can go together. You can be cheerful or playful while still paying attention to your responsibilities and the effects on others.

Meaning: A meal can be an occasion for pleasant company and good humour. Meat here stands for the meal, rather than only a particular food.

Meaning: The expression wishes for a pleasant meeting, a friendly parting and another welcome encounter. It values the continuity of good company as a hope or greeting, rather than a prediction about how every relationship will develop.

Meaning: Enjoying life need not be treated as less serious or worthwhile than sorrow. The saying refuses to give sadness a privileged place in how a life is valued.

Meaning: A small amount of enjoyment can feel more valuable than a large burden of sorrow. The contrasting weights and prices express appreciation for relief, without treating grief as something a cheerful moment can simply remove.

Meaning: More people can make a gathering livelier, while fewer people can mean more of the available food or comforts for each. Company and shared resources create different advantages.

Meaning: Music is pictured as creating harmony or a peaceful atmosphere. The saying idealises an experience rather than guaranteeing that no harm can occur around it.

Meaning: The saying praises a neighbour-quart as a good quart. A qualified reading connects the enjoyment of a measured portion with the neighbour associated with it.

Meaning: Even thoughtful people can enjoy occasional playfulness. Taking judgement seriously does not require every moment to be solemn, provided the humour suits the people and circumstances involved.

Meaning: Age does not necessarily remove appetite or desire. The older cat drinking as much as the kitten challenges an expectation that wanting must diminish.

Meaning: A favourable result may change how someone remembers the effort or discomfort that preceded it. The saying recognises that shift, while benefit does not erase harm, make every sacrifice justified or oblige someone to describe a difficult experience positively.

Meaning: The saying personifies diet, cheerfulness and quiet as the best physicians. It gives everyday conditions the title of doctors in an idealised account of wellbeing.

Meaning: A life occupied entirely by work can lose enjoyment, variety and energy. Make room for rest and recreation instead of treating constant effort as the only worthwhile use of time.

Meaning: Do not turn an activity pursued for enjoyment into an unnecessary burden. The saying asks whether the way a pleasure is organised still serves its purpose, without claiming that enjoyable activities should never involve effort or commitment.

Meaning: Having resources for a pressing need can bring relief. The heavy purse and light heart contrast material provision with a reduced emotional burden.

Meaning: Experience can include both sorrowful and joyful periods. The saying offers a perspective on change, without promising a regular cycle or telling someone that a difficult feeling must quickly disappear.

Meaning: A brief experience can be pleasing without lasting long. The donkey’s gallop gives the short duration a playful image.

Meaning: Singing can offer a welcome diversion from worry. The saying celebrates that relief without establishing that a song removes every burden.

Meaning: You can use resources generously without treating them carelessly. Enjoyment and freedom in spending can coexist with attention to what is useful, wanted and likely to be wasted.