Proverbs and old sayings Malagasy, page 3

110 proverbs and old sayings malagasy

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

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

Proverbs and old sayings Malagasy

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

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

Idleness moves so slowly that it will be overtaken by misery.

Proverbs and old sayings Malagasy

Do not be like a miser who saves for those who will bury him.

Proverbs and old sayings Malagasy

The earth is a giant cooking pot and men are the meat therein.

Proverbs and old sayings Malagasy about earth, man

Cross the river among a crowd and the crocodile won't eat you.

Proverbs and old sayings Malagasy