Malagasy Proverbs (129 Proverbs)
- 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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- 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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- 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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- 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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- The lazy man who goes to borrow a spade says, "I hope I will not find one."
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- Nothing is so difficult that diligence cannot master it.
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- If love is torn apart you cannot stitch the pieces together again.
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- Do not measure up the wood before the tree is cut down.
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- The king inherits a country -- the people only hard work.
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- Money is like a guest: it comes today, leaves tomorrow.
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- If it is not a boy it will be a girl, says the fortune-teller.
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- Do not kick away the canoe which helped you to cross the river.
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- You think you are strong like the corn plant, yet the bean vine is already choking you.
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- The food which is prepared has no master.
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- 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.
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- Idleness moves so slowly that it will be overtaken by misery.
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- Do not be like a miser who saves for those who will bury him.
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- You may well have caught a bird, but have you a fire to roast it on?
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- The end of an ox is beef, and the end of a lie is grief.
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- Marriage is not a tight knot, but a slip knot.
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- Greet everyone cordially when you don't know who your in-laws are going to be.
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- Divorce a young woman and you make another man happy.
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- You can't blame the axe for the noise made by the chicken you are about to slaughter.
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- The eel that got away is as fat as your thigh.
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- Love is like young rice: transplanted, still it grows.
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- He is truly hungry who accepts defeat in a fight over meat.
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- Distracted by what is far away, he does not see his nose.
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- You can catch a cricket in your hand but its song is all over the field.
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- The earth is God's bride -- she feeds the living and cherishes the dead.
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- Love is just like rice -- plant it elsewhere and it grows.
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- From all the fish in the pot you can only make one soup.
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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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