Proverbs and old sayings, page 1482

43575 proverbs and old sayings

Whichever hand is cut, the whole body feels the pain.

Proverbs and old sayings Malagasy about pain, body

Divorce a young woman and you make another man happy.

Proverbs and old sayings Malagasy about happiness, woman, man, contentment

Other people's children cause your nostrils to flare.

Proverbs and old sayings Malagasy about children, people

Do not measure up the wood before the tree is cut down.

Proverbs and old sayings Malagasy about measure

Better to lose a little money than a little friendship.

Proverbs and old sayings Malagasy about friendship, money

Money is like a guest: it comes today, leaves tomorrow.

Proverbs and old sayings Malagasy about money

The dying person cannot wait for the shroud to be woven.

Proverbs and old sayings Malagasy about people

The barking dog gives you no power -- it gives you fear.

Proverbs and old sayings Malagasy about power, fear, contentment

From all the fish in the pot you can only make one soup.

Proverbs and old sayings Malagasy about fishing, contentment

The king inherits a country -- the people only hard work.

Proverbs and old sayings Malagasy about country, work, people

A patient that can swallow food makes the nurse doubtful.

Proverbs and old sayings Malagasy about food

It is the softness of the lime that is fatal to the bird.

Proverbs and old sayings Malagasy

Govern a country as you would roast a crocodile on a spit.

Proverbs and old sayings Malagasy about country, contentment

Don't think there are no sharks because the water is calm.

Proverbs and old sayings Malagasy about water

Love is just like rice -- plant it elsewhere and it grows.

Proverbs and old sayings Malagasy about love

Behave like the chameleon: look forward and observe behind.

Proverbs and old sayings Malagasy

Done in by his own trade like a water merchant in the rain.

Proverbs and old sayings Malagasy about commerce, rain, water

When the ducks are quacking the frogs take it as a warning.

Proverbs and old sayings Malagasy

Words are like newly hatched eggs: they already have wings.

Proverbs and old sayings Malagasy about word

He is truly hungry who accepts defeat in a fight over meat.

Proverbs and old sayings Malagasy about defeat, fight