Peace.

Meaning: When trouble has subsided, avoid needlessly restarting it. Sleeping ill luck pictures a problem that is temporarily quiet and best left undisturbed.

Meaning: A hurtful remark can provoke another and start an escalating exchange. Notice when a reply is adding to the conflict instead of addressing the matter that caused it.

Meaning: To pocket an injury is to swallow an offence without answering it openly. That restraint can sometimes prevent an unnecessary quarrel, but the phrase should not require concealing harm or tolerating repeated mistreatment.

Meaning: Something offered as amusing or pleasing can leave an unpleasant result. The sweetmeat and sour-sauce contrast warns that a joke’s enjoyable surface may differ from its effect on the people involved.

Meaning: Kindness may ease hostility and invite a more cooperative response. Try consideration where it can help, while recognising that warmth does not reliably change every person or situation.

Meaning: The saying contrasts a large amount of legal contest with little affection. It expresses concern that an adversarial dispute can strain relationships, but it should not deny the need for legal protection or imply that asserting a right proves a lack of care.

Meaning: The saying warns that someone drawn to legal disputes may get more of them than they want. Getting one’s fill can turn an initial appetite into weariness.

Meaning: Saying less can sometimes let a minor dispute settle sooner. Restraint may prevent extra remarks from turning an awkward moment into a larger quarrel.

Meaning: Having fewer possessions can mean having fewer things to maintain or worry about. The saying highlights one possible burden of ownership.

Meaning: Allow others room to live differently while seeking the same room for yourself. The saying encourages tolerance and mutual freedom, without making every choice immune from criticism or excusing conduct that harms others.

Meaning: A modest position can offer comfort without the demands of display. Sitting low and being warmly provided contrast status with actual ease.

Meaning: Resentment can keep a grievance active long after the original occasion. The saying draws attention to remembered hostility and its effects, while leaving room to distinguish malice from legitimate concern about an unresolved wrong.

Editorial context: This gendered joke compares women’s conversation with animal noise. Address actual volume or conduct fairly instead of relying on the stereotype.

Meaning: The saying imagines a few women and a goose producing the noise of a market. It mocks women’s conversation through an animal comparison, rather than establishing that women are unusually talkative.

Meaning: A harmful partnership can create repeated difficulties in daily life. The spring image makes one troubled relationship a source from which other problems flow.

Meaning: A difficult situation may improve with time. The rhyme expresses hope that the current problem is not the final state of things.

Meaning: Mocking behaviour can be copied or returned by others. The compact saying warns that ridicule may shape the tone of a group, without describing a literal infection or proving that one remark will produce a particular reaction.

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: Care for your neighbour while keeping sensible boundaries. Goodwill and cooperation do not require giving up every distinction between your own space, needs and responsibilities and theirs.

Meaning: Peace with a neighbour depends partly on how both people live alongside each other. Consider the other person’s needs and boundaries rather than assuming your own intentions alone determine the relationship.

Meaning: The saying recommends looking at painting and fighting from a distance. It gives two different activities one instruction to stand apart.

Meaning: Be generous toward others while taking your own conduct seriously. The absolute refusal of self-pardon needs to be tempered with responsibility and self-compassion.

Meaning: Strong anger or agitation can carry a person into actions they would not choose calmly. The runaway horse suggests losing direction under an emotion, while allowing that feelings may reveal a concern worth addressing.

Meaning: Patience can soften the discomfort of delay or difficulty. The plaster image presents it as a help, while the claim that it treats every sore is an exaggeration.

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.