Wealth.

Meaning: When resources are scarce, shared provision may be limited. The contrast between coin and commons connects available means with what a group can supply.

Meaning: Having more money can bring more responsibilities or worries alongside its benefits. The repeated much links possessions with their management, without proving that wealth inevitably causes unhappiness or that lacking money is preferable.

Meaning: The saying regards a cold April as a sign of a well-filled barn later. It turns an unwelcome immediate condition into a hoped-for harvest benefit.

Meaning: The saying connects cold, windy May weather with a full barn later. It expresses confidence that the named conditions will produce ample provision.

Meaning: Having a small usable resource can be reassuring when a need arises. Calling a penny a companion praises its practical usefulness, without making money a substitute for affection, company or care.

Meaning: Lacking what is needed can make contentment difficult. The saying challenges the idea that deprivation automatically brings peace of mind.

Meaning: Having enough without depending on borrowing or flattering others can feel freeing. The saying values reduced dependence, without implying that needing help makes someone less worthy or less capable of contentment.

Meaning: Being satisfied with enough can offer a kind of richness that possessions alone do not provide. The proverb values contentment without claiming that deprivation is desirable or that material needs do not matter.

Meaning: Polite words may be inadequate when someone needs practical support. The saying asks for tangible help instead of ceremony, while recognising that the request still needs to fit what the other person can fairly provide.

Meaning: Wanting more does not by itself produce a worthwhile gain. Desire must not be mistaken for the work or judgment needed to obtain something.

Meaning: The saying makes attention to livestock and stored grain the basis of enough provision. It names specific household resources rather than relying on a general wish for prosperity.

Meaning: People owed something may remember an obligation more keenly than those who must meet it. Do not assume that your forgetfulness means the other person has forgotten too.

Meaning: An available benefit can attract people who want a share. Crumbs and chickens make that attraction visible, without proving that everyone who joins an activity is selfish or that every offer will draw interest.

Meaning: The saying gives different trading instructions according to whether the cuckoo arrives when the thorn is bare or full. A seasonal sign is made the basis for opposite changes in livestock and grain.

Meaning: Making a shortage into one’s storehouse pictures gaining from other people’s deprivation. The saying condemns exploiting scarcity, rather than every instance of preparing supplies or receiving a benefit during difficult circumstances; the relevant question is how the advantage is obtained.

Meaning: Owing money can make hardship feel especially restrictive because future resources are already committed. The saying emphasises the burden of obligation.

Meaning: Settling an obligation can remove one source of worry or exposure. The repeated “out of” makes release from debt sound like release from danger.

Meaning: Earthly possessions lose their comparative importance in the imagined final judgment. Money and a small amount of hay are placed on the same level.

Meaning: The saying warns that drinking without thirst may leave someone thirsty when no drink remains. Its sequence contrasts present use with later need.

Meaning: Financial worry can show in a person’s expression. The empty purse pictures a shortage of resources, and wrinkles give the strain a visible form.

Meaning: Money in your possession is not necessarily money you are free to use. If it belongs to someone else or is already owed, a full purse may conceal a lack of available resources.

Meaning: The saying treats a surplus as unnecessary when a need has already been met. Its useful question is whether extra provision serves a purpose, while reserves, sharing and uncertain future needs may make more than the immediate minimum worthwhile.

Meaning: A situation with no margin left can make every new need feel impossible to meet. The saying points to the strain of exhausted resources, rather than supplying a rule about how much is enough.

Meaning: Resenting another person’s advantage does not by itself improve your own situation. Notice what you need or can learn instead of treating someone else’s success as a resource you have lost.