Penny and penny laid up will be many. 
Meaning and origin
This proverb means that by saving small amounts of money over time, one can accumulate a significant amount. It emphasizes the importance of consistently saving and being patient in order to achieve financial stability or success.
The origin of this proverb is unclear, but it likely dates back to ancient times when people relied on physical currency, such as pennies, for transactions. The idea of saving small amounts of money to accumulate wealth over time has been a common practice throughout history, making this proverb a timeless piece of financial wisdom.
Proverbs on a similar topic
- The more you get, the more you want.
- Too much of one thing is good for nothing.
- Never too much of a good thing.
- Money will do anything.
- Take care of the pence and the pounds will take care of themselves.
- Little drops of water, little grains of sand, make the mighty ocean and the pleasant land.
- Cut your coat according to your cloth.
- Money is a good servant, but a bad master.
- Money makes the mare go.
- If you run after two hares, you will catch neither.
- All is fish that comes to the net.
- Money gets money.
- He that goes a-borrowing, goes a-sorrowing.
- Appetite comes with eating.
- A silver key can open an iron lock.
- Give him an inch and he'll take an ell.
- Money has no smell.
- Grasp all, lose all.
- A pin a day is a groat a year.
- As brooks make rivers, rivers run to seas.
- Many small make a great.
- A pound of care will not pay an ounce of debt.
- Self comes first.
- Store is no sore.
- He that has no money, needs no purse.
- The camel going to seek horns, lost his ears.
- I gave the mouse a hole and she is become my heir.
- You can have no more of a cat but her skin.
- Envy never enriched any man.
- Two bigs will not go in one bag.
Related proverbs
Similar proverbs in another language
Latin
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Magnum vectigal est parsimonia.
It is a great revenue saving.
French
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C'est avec des cents qu'on fait des piastres.
Pennies make piasters.
German
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Aus Pfennigen werden Taler.
Pennies become thalers.
Czech
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Málo k málu — a vždy víc.
Little to little - and always more.
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Krejcar střeží kopy.
Krejcar working the ground and pound.