Roosters’ tail feathers: pretty but always behind.
More Malagasy Proverbs:
May your friendship not be like a stone: if it breaks you cannot put the pieces together. May it be like iron: when it breaks, you can weld the pieces back together.Malagasy
Don't help a bull out of a ditch, for when he's out he'll butt you.
Malagasy
Idleness moves so slowly that it will be overtaken by misery.
Malagasy
If we don't fight we remain equals, if we do fight then one of us wins.
Malagasy
If it is not a boy it will be a girl, says the fortune-teller.
Malagasy
Crosses are ladders that lead to heaven.
Malagasy