Crows are never the whiter for washing themselves.
More Malagasy Proverbs:
Advice is a stranger; if he's welcome he stays for the night; if not, he leaves the same day.Malagasy
Crows bewail the dead sheep, and then eat them.
Malagasy
Love is like young rice: transplanted, still it grows.
Malagasy
If it is not a boy it will be a girl, says the fortune-teller.
Malagasy
The eel that got away is as fat as your thigh.
Malagasy
When the crocodiles leave, the caymans come.
Malagasy