Malay Proverbs (56 Proverbs)
- Don't use an axe to embroider.
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- Prepare the umbrella before it rains.
(Malay Proverb)
- Fear to let fall a drop and you will spill a lot.
(Malay Proverb)
- The earth compared to the sky.
(Malay Proverb)
- Fear to let spill a drop and you will spill a lot.
(Malay Proverb)
- The Potato grows in silence, The iron corrodes in silence.
(Malay Proverb)
- Feasting is the physician's harvest.
(Malay Proverb)
- Think before you leap.
(Malay Proverb)
- Gold rain drops on a foreign country,wherelse rain of stones drops on our country,but our country is better.
(Malay Proverb)
- Though change be no robbery.
(Malay Proverb)
- If you are too shy to ask, you might lose your way. When you go away, the conversation changes.
(Malay Proverb)
- Tigers die and leave their stripes, but humans die leaving their names.
(Malay Proverb)
- If you plant grass, you won't get rice.
(Malay Proverb)
- To truly love your wife, leave her alone every once in a while.
(Malay Proverb)
- A heavy load should be borne together as well as a light load.
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- If you want something, you'll do a thousand things to obtain it. But if you don't want something, you'll give a thousand excuses to refrain from it.
(Malay Proverb)
- Trumpet in a herd of elephants; crow in the company of cocks; bleat in a flock of goats.
(Malay Proverb)
- After Falling, The ladder falls on you.
(Malay Proverb)
- Just because you are irritated by a mosquito, you burn the mosquito curtain.
(Malay Proverb)
- As long as you happen to put your hand in a container full of pickles, might as well dip your whole arm in the container.
(Malay Proverb)
- Like a monkey who eats belacaan.
(Malay Proverb)
- Because of a drop of blue dye,a whole pot of milk is contaminated.
(Malay Proverb)
- Like the peanut, who forgets its shell.
(Malay Proverb)
- Because of lack of talent in dancing, the floor is blamed.
(Malay Proverb)
- Milk belongs to the cow, but the bull cow gets the publicity.
(Malay Proverb)
- Bit by bit, in the end it becomes a hill.
(Malay Proverb)
- No matter how big the whale is, a tiny harpoon can kill him.
(Malay Proverb)
- calf is given, but then thigh is requested.
(Malay Proverb)
- No matter how high the squirrel jumps, it will eventually fall onto the ground.
(Malay Proverb)
- Do not be tricked into thinking that there are no crocodiles just because the water is still.
(Malay Proverb)
- On which soil we stand on, that is where we carry the weight of the sky.
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- Do not think that placid water is without crocodiles.
(Malay Proverb)
- One can pay back the loan of gold, but one dies forever in debt to those who are kind.
(Malay Proverb)
- If there is no reason, why would the tempua bird nest on the low branches?
(Malay Proverb)
- He who has learned how to steal, must learn how to hang.
(Malay Proverb)
- Don't think there are no crocodiles because the water is calm.
(Malay Proverb)
- Do not measure another man's coat on your body.
(Malay Proverb)
- You can't get at the precious sago without first breaking the bark.
(Malay Proverb)
- Clapping with the right hand only will not produce a noise.
(Malay Proverb)
- Where there's a carcass, there will be vultures.
(Malay Proverb)
- An ox with long horns, even if he does not butt, will be accused of butting.
(Malay Proverb)
- Where there is sugar, there are bound to be ants.
(Malay Proverb)
- A fool is like the big drum that beats fast but does not realize its hollowness.
(Malay Proverb)
- To bend a bamboo, start when it is a shoot.
(Malay Proverb)
- Though a tree grows ever so high, the falling leaves return to its roots.
(Malay Proverb)
- The turtle lays thousands of eggs without anyone knowing, but when the hen lays an egg, the whole country is informed.
(Malay Proverb)
- The more sorrow one encounters, the more joy one can contain.
(Malay Proverb)
- The existence of the sea means the existence of pirates.
(Malay Proverb)
- The deep sea can be fathomed, but who knows the hearts of men?
(Malay Proverb)
- Smack a tray of water and you get to wash your face.
(Malay Proverb)
- One who sits by the well will never go thirsty.
(Malay Proverb)
- If you have, give; if you lack, seek.
(Malay Proverb)
- An unasked excuse infers transgression.
(Malay Proverb)
- Ants die in sugar.
(Malay Proverb)
- Anything with scales counts as fish.
(Malay Proverb)
- The more shoots, the more leaves.
(Malay Proverb)
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