Malagasy Proverbs (129 Proverbs)
- A man who lets his problems get the better of him is like a man who divorces his wife the first time she makes him angry.
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- In a fight with a fool it's a wise man who quits.
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- All who live under the sky are woven together like one big mat.
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- Like the chameleon, one eye on the future, one eye on the past.
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- Beware of french people who pretend to quarrel with each other: they will join together to fight you.
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- Love is like a rice plant; transplanted, it can grow elsewhere.
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- By getting angry, one shows that she is wrong.
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- Other people's children cause your nostrils to flare.
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- Cross the river in a crowd and the crocodile won't eat you.
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- People are like eels in the water, they wander this way and that.
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- Crosses are ladders which lead to heaven.
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- People are like plants in the wind: they bow down and rise up again.
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- Do not boast about your wealth if you are a father.
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- She is as undecided as an orphan: if she does not wash her hands, she will be told that she is a dirty child; if she washes her hands she will be told that she is wasting water.
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- Don't be like a shadow: a constant companion, but not a comrade.
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- The child of a rat is a rat.
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- Don't praise your wife before a year.
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- They who drink the water from the Manangareza river always come back to Madagascar.
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- Don't take another mouthful before you have swallowed what is in your mouth.
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- Those who know how to swim are the ones who sink.
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- Don't think there are no sharks because the water is calm.
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- Those who rush things too much, without reflection, can be surpassed by those who take their time.
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- Even the dead in their family vaults enjoy being in large company.
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- Truth is like sugar cane; even if you chew it for a long time, it is still sweet.
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- Flatters, like rats, tickle and then bite.
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- Whichever hand is cut, the whole body feels the pain.
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- Govern a country as you would roast a crocodile on a spit.
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- Without the forest, there will be no more water, without water, there will be no more rice.
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- However little food we have, we'll share it even if it's only one locust.
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- Words are like eggs: when they are hatched they have wings.
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- If you sell a drum in your own village, you get the money and keep the sound.
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- You can't catch a louse with one finger.
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- Crows bewail the dead sheep, and then eat them.
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- Crows are never the whiter for washing themselves.
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- Cross the river among a crowd and the crocodile won't eat you.
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- Cross in a crowd and the crocodile won't eat you.
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- By getting angry, you show you are wrong.
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- Better to lose a little money than a little friendship.
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- Better to be guilty in the eyes of men than in the eyes of God.
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- Behave like the chameleon: look forward and observe behind.
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- Be like the mouth and the hand: when the hand is hurt the mouth blows on it, when the mouth is hurt the hand rubs it.
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- As long as the mouse keeps still you can be sure that the cat stays on guard.
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- Ants can attack with a grain of rice.
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- Advice is a stranger; if he's welcome he stays for the night; if not, he leaves the same day.
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- A patient that can swallow food makes the nurse doubtful.
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- A man finds many faults in a woman when he wants to divorce, and finds many charms in one's fianc6e.
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- A chicken that hatches a crocodile's eggs is looking for trouble.
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- Disgraced like a man whose own pet bites him.
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- A canoe does not know who is king. When it turns over, everyone gets wet.
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- Words are like the spider's web: a shelter for the clever ones and a trap for the not-so-clever.
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- The earth is a giant cooking pot and men are the meat therein.
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- Living is not a reward and dying is no crime.
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- Friendship reminds us of fathers, love of mothers.
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- Words are like newly hatched eggs: they already have wings.
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- The dying person cannot wait for the shroud to be woven.
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- Life is a shadow and a mist; it passes quickly by, and is no more.
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- Flint and gunpowder: every time they meet there is an explosion.
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- When you treat someone like a wild cat, he will steal your chickens.
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- The dog's bark is not might but fright.
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- Let your love be like drizzle: it comes softly, but still swells the river.
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- Even the bottom of a basket finds something to hold.
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- When you are looking for a country with no tombstones you will find yourself in the land of cannibals.
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- The barking dog gives you no power -- it gives you fear.
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- It is the softness of the lime that is fatal to the bird.
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- Don't take a second mouthful before you have swallowed the first.
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- When the king reigns it is thanks to the people; when a river sings it's thanks to the stones.
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- Sorrow is like rice in an attic: you use a little every day and at the end it is all gone.
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- It is not the fire in the fireplace which warms the house, but the couple who get along well.
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- Don't be so much in love that you can't tell when it's raining.
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- When the ducks are quacking the frogs take it as a warning.
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- Sadness is a valuable treasure -- only discovered in people you love.
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- It is better to refuse than to accept and not to go.
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- Don't help a bull out of a ditch, for when he's out he'll butt you.
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- Wealth is like hair in the nose: it hurts to be separated whether from a little or from a lot.
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- Poverty won't allow him to lift up his head; dignity won't allow him to bow it down.
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- Indecision is like the stepchild: if he doesn't wash his hands, he is called dirty; if he does, he is wasting the water.
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- Done in by his own trade like a water merchant in the rain.
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- To love the law is to lose money.
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- One does not like hot, the other does not like cold; make it tepid to make an agreement.
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- If you try to cleanse others -- just like soap, you will waste away in the process!
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