Madagascan Proverbs - page 4

Crows bewail the dead sheep, and then eat them. (Madagascan Proverb)
Crows are never the whiter for washing themselves. View proverb
Madagascan Proverb
Advice is a stranger; if he's welcome he stays for the night; if not, he leaves the same day. View proverb
Madagascan Proverb
Flint and gunpowder: every time they meet there is an explosion. View proverb
Madagascan Proverb
Even the bottom of a basket finds something to hold. View proverb
Madagascan Proverb
Greet everyone cordially when you don't know who your in-laws are going to be. View proverb
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Don't kick a sleeping dog. View proverb
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Nothing is so difficult that diligence cannot master it. View proverb
Madagascan Proverb
The eel that got away is as fat as your thigh. View proverb
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People are like eels in the water, they wander this way and that. View proverb
Madagascan Proverb
People are like plants in the wind: they bow down and rise up again. (Madagascan Proverb)
Flatters, like rats, tickle and then bite. View proverb
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Let your love be like drizzle: it comes softly, but still swells the river. View proverb
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Love is just like rice - plant it elsewhere and it grows. View proverb
Madagascan Proverb
As long as the mouse keeps still you can be sure that the cat stays on guard. View proverb
Madagascan Proverb
Do not scare the birds you are going to shoot. View proverb
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Words go further than bullets. View proverb
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Words are like newly hatched eggs: they already have wings. View proverb
Madagascan Proverb
Words are like eggs: when they are hatched they have wings. View proverb
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A starving crocodile is never pleasant. View proverb
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A patient that can swallow food makes the nurse doubtful. (Madagascan Proverb)
"if it is not a boy it will be a girl,” says the fortune-teller. View proverb
Madagascan Proverb
You can't catch a louse with one finger. View proverb
Madagascan Proverb
By getting angry, one shows that she is wrong. View proverb
Madagascan Proverb
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. View proverb
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