Sadness is a valuable treasure -- only discovered in people you love.
Proverbs and old sayings Malagasy about contentment
Proverbs and old sayings about Contentment, page 172
5134 proverbs and old sayings about contentment
You can catch a cricket in your hand but its song is all over the field.
Proverbs and old sayings Malagasy about contentment
If you sell a drum in your own village, you get the money and keep the sound.
Proverbs and old sayings Malagasy about 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
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 contentment
If you try to cleanse others -- just like soap, you will waste away in the process.
Proverbs and old sayings Malagasy about contentment
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 contentment
Beware of french people who pretend to quarrel with each other: they will join together to fight you.
Proverbs and old sayings Malagasy about 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 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 contentment
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 contentment
You cannot pick up a pebble with one finger.
Proverbs and old sayings Guatemalan about contentment
If you have, give; if you need, seek.
Proverbs and old sayings Guatemalan about contentment
Don't dirty the place where you have eaten.
Proverbs and old sayings Guatemalan about contentment
Though near shore, you're still in the ocean.
Proverbs and old sayings Guatemalan about contentment
If you are going to bathe, get thoroughly wet.
Proverbs and old sayings Guatemalan about contentment
Leave her now and then if you would really love your wife.
Proverbs and old sayings Guatemalan about contentment
Fear to let fall a drop, will always make you spill a lot.
Proverbs and old sayings Guatemalan about contentment
