CUT YOUR CLOTH ACCORDING TO THE CLOTH

           This is an important maxim giving us necessary wisdom to live our lives. The literal meaning of the proverb is that we must cut our coat, or anything we want to stitch, according to the length of the cloth we have. Similarly, we must incur expenditure in such a way that it does not exceed our income. In short, it is important to live within our means.

           There are many people who want to live in a luxurious life even if that means living beyond one's means. People indulge in borrowing loans even if it means to be immersed in debts for a major part of their lives. Such people don't bother that if anything goes wrong with them, what would befail their family ? Children should be thought the value money and the significance of saving it, else they would grow up learning the wrong values. Gandhiji's statement in " My Experiments with My Truth " is very apt : " Buy only when you need it ". We should give a thought to this. Even the government of a country has to keep in mind the total resources while spending. If the government keeps borrowing recklessly from others foreign countries, it may also become bankrupt one day.

           This proverb can be applied universely. It teaches us how to be frugal rather than a spendthrift. If we learn wisdom from it, we might be able to live respectable lives and never have to face embarrassment and ruin ever again.

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