Anonymous

“ No one dies before his appointed hour. The dead cannot come back to life. The departed soul does not return. A young man may gather mountains of wealth. He can dispose of only as much as his appointed share. ”

“ As for the lowest of the low: when a courteous stranger comes as a guest and the host asks that she prepare some food, she excuses herself, saying: "There is neither a sieve nor any flour in this miserable house, and the camel has not yet returned from the mill." She insists that there is nothing in the house to put before the guest, and she turns her back on her husband. You may make a thousand requests of her, but she complies with not a single one of them. She turns a deaf ear to all her husband's beseeching. She is an offspring of the Prophet Noah's donkey. ”

“ Dede Korkut spoke on another occasion, and let us hear, my khan, what he said.
A treacherous young man cannot mount a well-bred horse when it is running; it is better that he does not try. It is better that the mean and the base do not use the sharp sword. ”

“ Only the minstrel with his big lute goes from land to land and from prince to prince. Only He knows who is stingy and who is generous. May you always have minstrels singing and playing in your presence. ”

“ An adopted son cannot be like a real one; when he grows up, he goes away and shows no gratitude. No hill can be made of ash. The son-in-law cannot be a substitute for a son. The black donkey does not become a mule by wearing a bridle. A slave woman does not become a lady by putting on expensive clothes. ”

“ I have gone bareheaded and barefooted. I wish that he were dead, so that I might marry another man; one who would make me happy." May such a woman not have children. May you, oh, my khan, never have such a woman in your household. ”

“ One is the support of her family; a second is the withering kind; a third is the gathering kind; and the last is the lowest of the low. She who is the support of the house is a woman who feeds and entertains the guests and sends them away happy, in the absence of her husband. ”