If we don't fight we remain equals, if we do fight then one of us wins.
Proverbs and old sayings Malagasy about fight
Proverbs and old sayings Malagasy, page 5
110 proverbs and old sayings malagasy
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
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
As long as the mouse keeps still you can be sure that the cat stays on guard.
Proverbs and old sayings Malagasy
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
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
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
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
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
Without the forest, there will be no more water, without water, there will be no more rice.
Proverbs and old sayings Malagasy about water
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
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
