Yóu jiǎn rù shē yì, yóu shē rù jiǎn nán, suǒyǐ yào cóngxiǎo yǎngchéng jiéjiǎn de xíguàn.
Easy to go from thrift to luxury, hard to go back — so children should learn to be frugal.
Tā zhǎng le gōngzī jiù kāishǐ dàshǒu dàjiǎo, yóu jiǎn rù shē yì a.
As soon as he got a raise he started splurging — sliding from frugality to excess is easy, indeed.