The living are denied a table; the dead get a whole coffin.
More Mongolian Proverbs:
Don't look for bad things in the good that you do.Mongolian
If you are going to steal bells plug your ears.
Mongolian
Wise men talk about ideas, intellectuals about facts, and the ordinary man talks about what he eats.
Mongolian
The distance between heaven and earth is no greater than one thought.
Mongolian
There are men who walk through the woods and see no trees.
Mongolian