Time.

Meaning: Sorrow may change or become less overwhelming with time. Wearing away pictures a gradual easing rather than an instant end.

Meaning: An unexpected sorrow can arrive and remain. The uninvited guest bringing a stool pictures trouble that settles in rather than passing straight through.

Meaning: The saying claims that sowing in May yields little. It turns a named month into a warning about insufficient return from an undertaking.

Meaning: Saving cannot preserve a resource once it has already been exhausted. The bare bottom of a container makes the warning about timing concrete.

Meaning: Begin conserving while supplies are plentiful instead of waiting until little remains. The brim and bottom contrast early care with late necessity.

Meaning: The saying encourages preserving resources earlier for use later. Its life-stage pattern is an invitation to foresight rather than a rule everyone can follow.

Meaning: Both speaking and remaining silent can be appropriate, depending on the situation. Judge what the moment requires instead of treating either constant speech or constant restraint as wise in itself.

Meaning: The saying claims that a bad stake remains standing longest. As an explicit analogy, an unwelcome or poor thing may persist beyond what someone expects.

Meaning: An arrangement left without renewal or attention may deteriorate. The standing pool gives inactivity a visible image of accumulated neglect.

Meaning: A safeguard introduced only after the loss may come too late to prevent that particular harm. The stable-door image warns about delayed precautions, while leaving room for repair and measures that protect against a future recurrence.

Meaning: Dealing with a small problem early can prevent it from becoming a larger, more difficult problem later. Timely attention often saves extra work and disruption.

Meaning: Act when conditions are favourable rather than delaying until the opportunity has weakened. Some tasks or decisions are easier to carry out during a short period of readiness.

Meaning: The saying recommends morning as a time for study. A careful reading treats it as one possible routine rather than a schedule that suits every learner.

Meaning: Acting quickly without enough visibility can lead to mistakes. The running-at-night image cautions against moving faster than the available understanding, without making caution an excuse for endless delay or supplying practical running instructions.

Meaning: New growth can draw on resources supplied by an older source. The tree image invites attention to dependence without making younger people a burden by nature.

Meaning: Attend to the difficulties of the present without treating every possible future problem as already here. The saying limits the burden of anticipation, without discouraging useful preparation or promises of future support.

Meaning: Relying on someone else’s provision can leave you waiting on their timing. The borrowed table highlights dependence in an arrangement, without making receiving help shameful or assuming that independence is always possible.

Meaning: A promised kindness may lose its value to the recipient if it is delayed too long. The saying connects appreciation with timely follow-through, without making gratitude an entitlement or ignoring reasonable limits.

Meaning: The saying links early effort with advancement and imagines success allowing more leisure. Its clock times are memorable rhetoric rather than a universal schedule.

Meaning: The saying treats December thunder as a sign of fine weather ahead. An unusual event is assigned a reassuring predictive meaning.

Meaning: A favourable opportunity may need action while its conditions last. The high tide pictures a moment when progress is easier than it will be later.

Meaning: A later change can remove what an earlier change supplied. The ebb and returning tide picture a temporary gain that may not stay in place.

Meaning: Take a worthwhile opportunity while it is available. A timely action may be more useful than waiting until the moment has passed and trying to recover it afterwards.

Meaning: Small repeated efforts can gradually overcome a larger obstacle. Notice cumulative progress rather than assuming that an action is useless because one attempt has little visible effect.