Indicates that the speaker needs a smaller size (of clothes or shoes).

What is the date? (used to request the current date)

(idiomatic) Indicates that given plans or actions can proceed.

It is better to prevent a disease than to have to cure it. / (idiomatic, by extension) Precaution and prevention of an undesirable thing is preferable to dealing with its potential consequences.

Said when one is satisfied with taking revenge on oneself.

It is better to be contented over something than to have nothing at all.

(idiomatic) to perform an action before being forced to do so.

Contentment is more a matter of attitude than circumstances.

When you use a thing too much, it ultimately breaks down at some point.

A surname originating as a patronymic.