Thursday, September 23, 2021
Malagasy Proverbs (129 Proverbs)
- Even the dead in their family vaults enjoy being in large company.
(Malagasy Proverb)
- Truth is like sugar cane; even if you chew it for a long time, it is still sweet.
(Malagasy Proverb)
- Flatters, like rats, tickle and then bite.
(Malagasy Proverb)
- Whichever hand is cut, the whole body feels the pain.
(Malagasy Proverb)
- Govern a country as you would roast a crocodile on a spit.
(Malagasy Proverb)
- Without the forest, there will be no more water, without water, there will be no more rice.
(Malagasy Proverb)
- However little food we have, we'll share it even if it's only one locust.
(Malagasy Proverb)
- Words are like eggs: when they are hatched they have wings.
(Malagasy Proverb)
- If you sell a drum in your own village, you get the money and keep the sound.
(Malagasy Proverb)
- You can't catch a louse with one finger.
(Malagasy Proverb)
- 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.
(Malagasy Proverb)
- In a fight with a fool it's a wise man who quits.
(Malagasy Proverb)
- All who live under the sky are woven together like one big mat.
(Malagasy Proverb)
- Like the chameleon, one eye on the future, one eye on the past.
(Malagasy Proverb)
- Beware of french people who pretend to quarrel with each other: they will join together to fight you.
(Malagasy Proverb)
- Love is like a rice plant; transplanted, it can grow elsewhere.
(Malagasy Proverb)
- By getting angry, one shows that she is wrong.
(Malagasy Proverb)
- Other people's children cause your nostrils to flare.
(Malagasy Proverb)
- Cross the river in a crowd and the crocodile won't eat you.
(Malagasy Proverb)
- People are like eels in the water, they wander this way and that.
(Malagasy Proverb)
- Crosses are ladders which lead to heaven.
(Malagasy Proverb)
- People are like plants in the wind: they bow down and rise up again.
(Malagasy Proverb)
- Do not boast about your wealth if you are a father.
(Malagasy Proverb)
- 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.
(Malagasy Proverb)
- Don't be like a shadow: a constant companion, but not a comrade.
(Malagasy Proverb)
- The child of a rat is a rat.
(Malagasy Proverb)
- Don't praise your wife before a year.
(Malagasy Proverb)
- They who drink the water from the Manangareza river always come back to Madagascar.
(Malagasy Proverb)
- Don't take another mouthful before you have swallowed what is in your mouth.
(Malagasy Proverb)
- Those who know how to swim are the ones who sink.
(Malagasy Proverb)
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