Advice is a stranger; if he's welcome he stays for the night; if not, he leaves the same day.
Proverbs and old sayings Malagasy about advice, night, day
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It is not the fire in the fireplace which warms the house, but the couple who get along well.
Proverbs and old sayings Malagasy about couple, fire, fire brigade, home, house
Wealth is like hair in the nose: it hurts to be separated whether from a little or from a lot.
Proverbs and old sayings Malagasy about wealth
When the king reigns it is thanks to the people; when a river sings it's thanks to the stones.
Proverbs and old sayings Malagasy about people
Words are like the spider's web: a shelter for the clever ones and a trap for the not-so-clever.
Proverbs and old sayings Malagasy about intelligence, trap, word
Those who rush things too much, without reflection, can be surpassed by those who take their time.
Proverbs and old sayings Malagasy about things, time
A man finds many faults in a woman when he wants to divorce, and finds many charms in one's fianc6e.
Proverbs and old sayings Malagasy about woman, man
Beware of french people who pretend to quarrel with each other: they will join together to fight you.
Proverbs and old sayings Malagasy about fight, people, contentment
When you are looking for a country with no tombstones you will find yourself in the land of cannibals.
Proverbs and old sayings Malagasy about country, contentment
The sin for which you repent is the father of virtue; but a virtue that you talk about, is the mother of sin.
Proverbs and old sayings Malagasy about virtue, sin, mother, contentment
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.
Proverbs and old sayings Malagasy
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.
Proverbs and old sayings Malagasy about problems, wife, time, man
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.
Proverbs and old sayings Malagasy about friendship, contentment
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.
Proverbs and old sayings Malagasy about children, water
You cannot pick up a pebble with one finger.
Proverbs and old sayings Guatemalan about contentment
Ants die in sugar.
Proverbs and old sayings Guatemalan about death
The smallest pepper is hottest.
Proverbs and old sayings Guatemalan
The less soup, the more spoons.
Proverbs and old sayings Guatemalan
The body is killed by the mouth.
Proverbs and old sayings Guatemalan about body
The more shoots, the more leaves.
Proverbs and old sayings Guatemalan
