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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 friendship, contentment

She is as undecided as an orphan: if she does not wash her hands, she will be told that she is a dirty child; if she washes her hands she will be told that she is wasting water.

Proverbs and old sayings Malagasy about children, water

You cannot pick up a pebble with one finger.

Proverbs and old sayings Guatemalan about contentment

Ants die in sugar.

Proverbs and old sayings Guatemalan about death

The smallest pepper is hottest.

Proverbs and old sayings Guatemalan

The less soup, the more spoons.

Proverbs and old sayings Guatemalan

The body is killed by the mouth.

Proverbs and old sayings Guatemalan about body

The more shoots, the more leaves.

Proverbs and old sayings Guatemalan

Don't use an axe to do embroidery.

Proverbs and old sayings Guatemalan about use

The teeth sometimes bite the tongue.

Proverbs and old sayings Guatemalan

Fish don't get caught in deep water.

Proverbs and old sayings Guatemalan about fishing, water

Go away and the conversation changes.

Proverbs and old sayings Guatemalan about conversation

When it's warm the pea loses its pod.

Proverbs and old sayings Guatemalan

Every man is a prince in his own bed.

Proverbs and old sayings Guatemalan about man

If you have, give; if you need, seek.

Proverbs and old sayings Guatemalan about need, contentment

Where there is sugar, there are mice.

Proverbs and old sayings Guatemalan

Anything with scales counts as a fish.

Proverbs and old sayings Guatemalan about fishing

Don't teach the tiger cub to eat meat.

Proverbs and old sayings Guatemalan

Rocks need no protection from the rain.

Proverbs and old sayings Guatemalan about rocks, rain, need

The proportion of things thrill the eye.

Proverbs and old sayings Guatemalan about things