Greet everyone cordially when you don't know who your in-laws are going to be.
Proverbs and old sayings Malagasy about contentment
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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, contentment
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 about waste, contentment
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 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 sadness, use, end, day, contentment
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
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
