Meaning: If the eldest misbehaves, what do you expect of the younger?

Context: The example set by elders shapes the youth

Meaning: Haste bears sons, patience brings bags of money

Context: Rushing gives quick results, but patience yields lasting gain

Meaning: If tobacco had benefit, Habargidir would have eaten it

Context: The wise avoid useless habits — sarcasm against folly

Meaning: If all things were equal, no rain would fall

Context: Nature thrives on difference — inequality sustains balance

Meaning: If haste bears sons, slowness bears bags of gold

Context: Patience leads to wealth — careful timing wins

Meaning: If you're spoken of, people will talk; if you gossip, you'll be spoken of

Context: Gossip begets gossip — what you give returns to you

Meaning: If you're dying, wipe your saliva

Context: Keep dignity even in death — self-respect never ends

Meaning: A cow that refuses the brush will still find a tree to scratch

Context: Everyone seeks comfort — instinct finds its way

Meaning: A cow that has seen a lion won't graze carelessly

Context: Experience teaches caution — fear shapes wisdom

Meaning: Think before you act

Context: Wisdom comes from foresight — reflection prevents regret

Meaning: Your eye is your teacher

Context: Experience teaches best — observation brings knowledge

Meaning: A door isn't closed by words but by a bar

Context: Action secures what speech cannot — deeds over words

Meaning: Where running exists, falling does too

Context: Risk accompanies effort — progress comes with failure

Meaning: When one endures the dry season, the body doesn't need endurance

Context: If you survive the hardest time, smaller challenges are easy

Meaning: While a car is being sought, the poor woman's son becomes a soldier

Context: The poor act while the rich plan — necessity drives quick decisions

Meaning: A daughter whose mother grinds grain learns to sift it

Context: Children learn by imitation — parents' habits shape their offspring

Meaning: A fool makes no smoke but keeps flapping her sleeves

Context: The foolish make noise without effect — empty effort achieves nothing

Meaning: When a woman enters, the cow doesn't rise

Context: Certain presences calm the scene — gentleness disarms tension

Meaning: Your eyes are your peers, but your ears are older than you

Context: Seeing gives facts, but listening gives wisdom — elders teach more

Meaning: Loving eyes can't look straight at each other

Context: Deep affection brings shyness — love humbles the heart