Mongolian Proverbs

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You will have four nights taking a short cut.

You can’t put two saddles on the same horse.

Wise men talk about ideas, intellectuals about facts, and the ordinary man talks about what he eats.

Who cleans up the dirt washes away happiness.

Two bears in one cave will not end up well.

Times are not always the same; the grass is not always green.

There are men who walk through the woods and see no trees.

The winner has many friends, the loser has good friends.

The supreme treasure is knowledge, the middle treasure is children, and the lowest treasure is material wealth.

The more you listen the more you give yourself room for doubt.

The meat-biting tooth is in the mouth; the man-biting tooth is in the soul.

The living denied a table; the dead get a whole coffin.

The fish sees the bait not the hook; a man sees not the danger — only the profit.

The donkey recognises the tracks of a horse.

The distance between heaven and earth is no greater than one thought.