Sayings from the Scales

To go to the lavatory.

To reappear when unwanted.

Sudden understanding after a delay.

What are you thinking about?

Economy is as valuable as income.

Having committed at all, commit fully.

Careful with small sums while wasteful with large ones.

A large sum of money.

Common and of little value.

Entirely worthless.

Small economies accumulate into large ones.

To enlist; to accept an obligation by taking payment.

Disinherited.

The high-wheeled Victorian bicycle.

A debt exacted to the letter, however cruelly.

To ruin something valuable by refusing to spend a trivial amount on finishing it properly.

A rough practical method, good enough without precision.

A small concession invites a much larger demand.

A narrow failure is still a failure.

Absolutely immovable.

Thoroughly and unmistakably what one claims to be.

Very nearly to the point of death.

To do more than is required.

A short distance.

In the closing stage of a long effort.

A standard for comparison.

Everything; the full extent of something.

To understand something after effort.

Drowned; lost at sea.

To dispose of something permanently.

Dead and buried.

Considerably further than you have been led to believe.

A distance that turns out much longer than promised.

A long and imprecise distance.

Extremely valuable.

A very small amount of accuracy in something largely false.

Small precautions save large remedies.

Entirely without judgement.

Being somewhat heavier than one might wish.

With sudden, overwhelming force.

Being cheated of what you are owed.

Assessed and judged inadequate.

To treat something with scepticism.

Watch your behaviour; be careful what you do or say.

Some things simply will not fit.

Small, usually said of a person affectionately.

A considerable amount of difficulty.

Concealing your talents or achievements.

A small measure of whisky.

Considerably more drink than an English visitor expects.

Thirteen rather than twelve.

Two options that amount to the same thing.

Speaking very rapidly.

Eighty-seven years ago.

Seventy years; a full human lifespan.

Very shortly.