You can catch a cricket in your hand but its song is all over the field.
More Malagasy Proverbs:
Don't be so much in love that you can't tell when it's raining.Malagasy
Living is not a reward and dying is no crime.
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Don't take a second mouthful before you have swallowed the first.
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Crows are never the whiter for washing themselves.
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Idleness moves so slowly that it will be overtaken by misery.
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From all the fish in the pot you can only make one soup.
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