Tajikistani Proverbs

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A man without a fatherland is like a nightingale without a garden.

The rich eat kebab, the poor inhale smoke.

A chicken you eat only once — eggs a hundred times.

For a greedy man even his tomb is too small.

The sun cannot be covered with a skirt.

A woman’s work is worth more than the talk of a thousand men.

A scientist without action is a bee without honey.

If you sit with the moon you become the moon.

First think then talk.

If the mule doesn’t go to the burden, then the burden will come to the mule.

If you are an elephant don’t offend the cat.

Do not confide in your friend if he has other friends.

To know a language is to know the world.

The fox’s enemy is its tail.