1. From thrift to luxury is easy， from luxury to frugality is difficult.

1. It's easy to go from thrift to luxury, but difficult to transition from luxury to frugality.

2. 粗茶淡饭，细水长流。

2. Simple food and modest living, a steady stream of small benefits.

3. 精打细算，油盐不断。

3. Be thrifty, and the oil and salt will never run out.

4. If you want to make your life brilliant， don't waste your youth.

4. If you want to make your life brilliant, don't squander your youth.

5. Coarse tea， light rice， long running water.

5. Coarse tea, light rice, long-running water.

6. Fine water and stream， eat and wear without worry.

6. Pure water and stream, eat and wear without a care.

7. Save grain and keep away from waste.

7. Save grain and keep away from waste.

8. Time wasted casually can never be won back.

8. Time wasted casually can never be regained.

9. 浪费生命是做人的最大悲剧。

9. Wasting life is the greatest tragedy of being human.

10. 节约用水光荣，浪费清水可耻。

10. It is光荣 to save water, and it is耻辱 to waste clean water.

11. For food and clothing， thrift is essential.

11. For food and clothing, thrift is essential.

12. It is honorable to save water and shameful to waste clean water.

12. It is honorable to save water and shameful to waste clean water.

13. 浪费无底洞，坐吃山要空。

13. A bottomless pit of waste; if you sit and consume, you will soon exhaust the mountain.

14. 勤能补拙，省能补贫。

14. Diligence can compensate for one's shortcomings, while frugality can compensate for poverty.

15. 想让生命辉煌，就别浪费青春。

15. If you want to make life brilliant, don't waste your youth.

16. Think before and after， eat and wear often.

16. Think before and after, eat and wear often.

17. Eating is better than eating.

17. Eating is better than eating. This sentence is somewhat redundant and might be a play on words. In English, it essentially translates to the same thing twice, which doesn't convey much meaning. A more typical translation or interpretation might be: 17. Eating is preferable to not eating.

18. 勤俭永不穷，坐食山也空。?>

18. Frugality never leads to poverty, while mere idleness will leave a mountain empty.

19. 细水和流，吃穿不愁。

19. Small and steady, no worries about food and clothing.

20. Wasting water is shameful and saving water is glorious.

20. Wasting water is disgraceful and saving water is glorious.

21. Wasting life is the greatest tragedy of being human.

21. Wasting life is the greatest tragedy of being human.

22. Save water gloriously， waste water shamefully！

22. Save water gloriously; waste water shamefully!

23. 随随便便浪费的时间，再也不能赢回来。

23. Time casually wasted can never be regained.

24. 小钱不知省，大钱将滥花。

24. If small sums are not saved, large sums will be squandered.

25. Waste is expenditure， saving is income.

25. Waste is expenditure; saving is income.

26. 节约水光荣，浪费水可耻！

26. It is光荣 to save water, and it is可耻 to waste water!

27. 思前顾后，吃穿常有。

27. Think ahead and ensure there is always enough to eat and wear.

28. 吃千吃万，不如吃饭。

28. Eating a thousand things and a thousand times is not as good as eating regular meals.

29. From thrift to luxury， from luxury to frugality.

29. From thrift to luxury, from luxury to frugality.

30. 浪费用水可耻，节约用水光荣。

30. Wasting water is disgraceful, while conserving water is honorable.

31. 节约粮食，远离浪费。

31. Save food, shun waste.

32. Waste bottomless pit， eat mountain empty.

32. Waste bottomless pit, eating mountains empty.

33. Time is life. Wasting time is sacrificing life.

33. Time is life. Wasting time is sacrificing life.

34. Save water and waste shamefully.

34. Save water and waste it shamefully.

35. 从俭入奢易，从奢入俭难。

35. It is easy to move from frugality to extravagance, but difficult to go from extravagance to frugality.

36. 时间就是生命，浪费了时间就是牺牲了生命。

36. Time is life, and wasting time is sacrificing life.

37. 欲求温饱，勤俭为要。

37. To seek warmth and food, diligence and thrift are essential.

38. If you don't know how to save money， you will spend it too much.

38. If you don't know how to save money, you will spend it too much.

39. Cherish food and keep away from waste.

39. Cherish food and keep away from waste.

40. 珍惜粮食，远离浪费。

40. Cherish food, stay away from waste.

41. Diligence and thrift are never exhausted， and the mountain is empty.

41. Diligence and thrift are never exhausted; the mountain is empty.

42. 浪费是支出，节约是收入。

42. Waste is expenditure, and saving is income.

43. 节约用水，浪费可耻。

43. Save water, waste is shameful.

44. 由俭入奢易，由奢返俭难。

44. It is easy to go from frugality to extravagance, but difficult to return from extravagance to frugality.

45. Diligence can make up for stupidity and save energy to make up for poverty.

45. Diligence can compensate for stupidity and save energy to compensate for poverty.

46. Careful calculation， constant oil and salt.

46. Careful calculation, constant oil and salt.