You think you are strong like the corn plant, yet the bean vine is already choking you.
More Malagasy Proverbs:
Do not measure up the wood before the tree is cut down.Malagasy
To love the law is to lose money.
Malagasy
Ants can attack with a grain of rice.
Malagasy
Cross the river among a crowd and the crocodile won't eat you.
Malagasy
Indecision is like the stepchild: if he doesn't wash his hands, he is called dirty; if he does, he is wasting the water.
Malagasy
Iron does not clang by itself.
Malagasy