Kazakh proverbs

Folklore of Kazakhstan

Motherland is the motherto people; people is the mother to a dzhigit (skilful horseman).
There is no place like your Motherland.
The best people are in your therland.
Love to the Motherland starts in the family.
The Motherland can get you warm better than fire.
There is a lot of gold in some places, but still the Motherland is dearer than gold.
An onion can be as sweet as honey if it grows in your Motherland.
Even a mole feels strong when it is in his hole.
If your sickle is sharp you wil I have a rich crop, if your Motherland is strong you will be as strong as your enemy.
As small as sparrow is, it still protects its nest.
A goose misses its lake, a man longs for his Motherland.
You must have not gone too far if you were able to find your way back.
Even air in your land can cure.
Native land is a paradise for everybody.
To betray the Motherland is as bad as to bury yourself alive.
A man cries over the loss of his wife until she is buried, a man cries over the loss of his Motherland until he is buried.
Afield looks lonely if it has not been sowed and a dzhigit looks lonely if he does not have a Motherland.
Days and nights are beautiful in your Motherland.
Any land is good but the Motherland is the best.
A crow from your land is better than a hawk from a foreign land.
If a horse misses its herd, it stamps its back hooves. If a man misses company, he harnesses his horse.
Even if I cannot be a khan in my Motherland, I would be happy to be just a stone in a ravine.
A divided country will fall; a united country will standfast.
Never enter a seedy place; never live in a country without a leader.
Each country has different laws, even different dogs.
When the people will stand up, they can reach the sky.
That dzhigit is happy if he knows his price. People are happy who rule themselves.
To go up against people is like to swim against the current.
Who leads the people will swallow butter, who lags behind the people will swallows dust.
The history of land is the history of its people.
The people's wrath can destroy even fortresses.
A road can mean another road, the people can get closer to people.
If the people are looking for one if their own, they will find him in no time. The people have long hands.
The people do not talk empty talk, whatever they talk is sensible.
The people's strength is as powerful as a mud slide.
One can live with loss of sight but cannot live without people.
A fowl can be very playful but will never run away from the herd.
A merchant is a spoon, the people is the sea.
People's smile is hotter than the sun.
Eyes of a hundred people can warm you up better than the sun.
A man can be more intelligent than his friends but cannot be wiser than the whole people.
It is better to cook porridge for a hundred people that to be a boss for ten.
One cannot put a plug on people's mouth.
It is better to be a servant to six people than to be a leader of five.
The people have sharp sight and generous hands.
People's gratitude is a real grace.
There is no people without the eldest
Who travels in other countries will be a critic, who wanders the forest will be a builder.
There are no people without conflicts, there is no land without enemies.
The people without thieves are like the land without wolves.
There is no people without sons as there is no land without flowers.
The people without a khan is like the land without mountains.
The one who does not know his people cannot judge other people.
Happiness does not run away from the people and craftiness cannot slip away from the people.
A man is a guest in this life.
If the people are united, there is no place for hostility.
One cannot embrace the people's bosom.
There is no wall the people can seize.
A wolf cannot get enough of sheep and a man cannot get enough of thinking.
One can better than a batyr but cannot be better than the people.