People are like plants in the wind: they bow down and rise up again.
Proverbs and old sayings Malagasy about people
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Sadness is a valuable treasure -- only discovered in people you love.
Proverbs and old sayings Malagasy about sadness, treasure, people, love, contentment
One can't give a grasshopper to a child if one has not caught it yet.
Proverbs and old sayings Malagasy about children
Do not waste your time looking for soft ground to drive your spade in.
Proverbs and old sayings Malagasy about waste, time
If we don't fight we remain equals, if we do fight then one of us wins.
Proverbs and old sayings Malagasy about fight
The earth is God's bride -- she feeds the living and cherishes the dead.
Proverbs and old sayings Malagasy about earth, god
You can catch a cricket in your hand but its song is all over the field.
Proverbs and old sayings Malagasy about trap, contentment
However little food we have, we'll share it even if it's only one locust.
Proverbs and old sayings Malagasy about food
Let your love be like drizzle: it comes softly, but still swells the river.
Proverbs and old sayings Malagasy about love
If you sell a drum in your own village, you get the money and keep the sound.
Proverbs and old sayings Malagasy about commerce, money, contentment
As long as the mouse keeps still you can be sure that the cat stays on guard.
Proverbs and old sayings Malagasy about contentment
Let your love be like the misty rains, coming softly, but flooding the river.
Proverbs and old sayings Malagasy about love
Greet everyone cordially when you don't know who your in-laws are going to be.
Proverbs and old sayings Malagasy about contentment
Truth is like sugar cane; even if you chew it for a long time, it is still sweet.
Proverbs and old sayings Malagasy about truth, time, contentment
They who drink the water from the Manangareza river always come back to Madagascar.
Proverbs and old sayings Malagasy about drinking, water
If you try to cleanse others -- just like soap, you will waste away in the process.
Proverbs and old sayings Malagasy about waste, contentment
Poverty won't allow him to lift up his head; dignity won't allow him to bow it down.
Proverbs and old sayings Malagasy about dignity, poverty, heads
You can't blame the axe for the noise made by the chicken you are about to slaughter.
Proverbs and old sayings Malagasy about contentment
Sorrow is like rice in an attic: you use a little every day and at the end it is all gone.
Proverbs and old sayings Malagasy about sadness, use, end, day, contentment
Without the forest, there will be no more water, without water, there will be no more rice.
Proverbs and old sayings Malagasy about water
