Govern a country as you would roast a crocodile on a spit.
Proverbs and old sayings Malagasy about country, contentment
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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 about contentment
If it is not a boy it will be a girl, says the fortune-teller.
Proverbs and old sayings Malagasy about wealth
To deny God's existence is like jumping with your eyes closed.
Proverbs and old sayings Malagasy about existence, eyes, god
Don't be so much in love that you can't tell when it's raining.
Proverbs and old sayings Malagasy about love, contentment
Better to be guilty in the eyes of men than in the eyes of God.
Proverbs and old sayings Malagasy about eyes, man, god
Like the chameleon, one eye on the future, one eye on the past.
Proverbs and old sayings Malagasy about future, past
All who live under the sky are woven together like one big mat.
Proverbs and old sayings Malagasy about sky
Don't be like a shadow: a constant companion, but not a comrade.
Proverbs and old sayings Malagasy about shadow
Flint and gunpowder: every time they meet there is an explosion.
Proverbs and old sayings Malagasy about time
