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Explore passages mentioning wealth, money, rich. Topic suggestions use transparent word matching, not scholarly classification. Reviewed editorial meanings may also connect entries to this topic; those assignments are labelled separately from word matching.
Meaning: Money may overcome a barrier that is supposed to keep something secure. The lock and gold warn about financial influence or corruption, without proving that every person or safeguard can be bought.
Meaning: The prospect of wealth can distract people from relevant facts or objections. The saying warns about distorted judgement, without proving that every person will ignore evidence when money is involved.
Meaning: Companions drawn mainly by generous food or entertainment may leave when those benefits stop. The saying questions a friendship dependent on hospitality, without making attendance or a host’s spending a reliable measure of affection.
Meaning: Do not keep adding resources to a failing course merely because you have already spent some. Judge the next commitment by what it can achieve now, rather than by a wish to justify the past.
Meaning: Wealth expected through marriage can bring demands and disagreements as well as apparent advantages. The bed represents the shared relationship, asking whether attention to resources has displaced consideration of the people and their expectations.
Meaning: The saying imposes fixed age deadlines for appearance, strength, wisdom and wealth. Its sweeping prediction should be questioned: these qualities are not a single timetable, and missing an age-based expectation does not determine a person’s future or worth.
Meaning: Well-being is valued above possessions in this comparison. The proverb asks what makes resources worth having, without claiming that illness reduces a person’s worth or that money has no role in meeting practical needs.
Meaning: Material advantage may not be worth gaining through conduct that brings shame or harms others. The saying places integrity above wealth, rather than treating money as the only measure of a good life.
Meaning: An already completed undertaking may include useful details that would take effort to provide separately. The finished house pictures the value of work already done.
Meaning: An occasional shortage of space may be preferable to the continuing burden of having more than is needed. The house image compares a temporary inconvenience with a lasting commitment, rather than prescribing an ideal home size.
Meaning: Satisfying a basic need may be simpler than satisfying elaborate preferences. Daintiness represents selectiveness or luxury beyond the need itself.
Meaning: The saying gives hunger the power to make hard bones seem like sweet beans. Need changes the imagined value of something ordinarily unappealing.
Meaning: Careful management can leave resources for personal needs, assistance and friendship. The three pennies picture several purposes served by stewardship.
Meaning: Neglecting available opportunities to prepare for the future can leave someone with fewer resources later. Youth and old age frame the consequences over time.
Meaning: The saying warns that neglecting available work can contribute to material difficulty. Its absolute link between inactivity and poverty is too narrow to explain people’s circumstances.
Meaning: Neglecting an available task can leave its expected benefit unrealised. Bare feet picture the lack of something that effort might have supplied.
Meaning: Resources obtained dishonestly may be used carelessly or harmfully. The repeated “ill” joins the way something is acquired to the way it is spent.
Meaning: Effort and careful use of resources can work together towards a worthwhile result. The saying values both contribution and conservation without guaranteeing success or requiring constant work and deprivation.
Meaning: The saying promises material gain from sowing oats in January. Gold and groats connect a calendar choice with an imagined reward.
Meaning: Keeping a portion of what is available can help bridge the interval before another supply arrives. The saying values continuity, while a reserve is only possible when there is enough to retain and cannot make a future supply certain.
Meaning: Spending heavily on present comforts can leave fewer resources for later purposes. A generous kitchen is contrasted with a small remainder.
Meaning: Spending on outward display can crowd out ordinary necessities. Fine clothing is pictured as consuming the resources that would keep the kitchen working.
Meaning: Useful effort that produces a result is compared to making gold. Spinning gives productive work a visible image of creating value.
Meaning: The saying claims land never lacks someone to inherit it. It pictures a valuable possession as certain to attract a successor.