Madagascan Proverbs - page 5

It is not the fire in the fireplace which warms the house, but the couple who get along well. (Madagascan Proverb)
Behave like the chameleon: look forward and observe behind. View proverb
Madagascan Proverb
If you sell a drum in your own village, you get the money and keep the sound. View proverb
Madagascan Proverb
One does not like hot, the other does not like cold; make it tepid to make an agreement. View proverb
Madagascan Proverb
Divorce a young woman and you make another man happy. View proverb
Madagascan Proverb
Do not measure up the wood before the tree is cut down. View proverb
Madagascan Proverb
Do not waste your time looking for soft ground to drive your spade in. View proverb
Madagascan Proverb
Don't help a bull out of a ditch, for when he's out he'll butt you. View proverb
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Roosters' tail feathers: pretty but always behind. View proverb
Madagascan Proverb
Cross in a crowd and the crocodile won't eat you. View proverb
Madagascan Proverb
You can't blame the axe for the noise made by the chicken you are about to slaughter. (Madagascan Proverb)
A man finds many faults in a woman when he wants to divorce, and finds many charms in one's fianc6e. View proverb
Madagascan Proverb
Beware of french people who pretend to quarrel with each other: they will join together to fight you. View proverb
Madagascan Proverb
By getting angry, you show you are wrong. View proverb
Madagascan Proverb
They who drink the water from the Manangareza river always come back to Madagascar. View proverb
Madagascan Proverb
Without the forest, there will be no more water, without water, there will be no more rice. View proverb
Madagascan Proverb
Wealth is like hair in the nose: it hurts to be separated whether from a little or from a lot. View proverb
Madagascan Proverb
Indecision is like the stepchild: if he doesn't wash his hands, he is called dirty; if he does, he is wasting the water. View proverb
Madagascan Proverb
The sin for which you repent is the father of virtue; but a virtue that you talk about, is the mother of sin. View proverb
Madagascan Proverb
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. View proverb
Madagascan Proverb
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. (Madagascan Proverb)
Words are like the spider's web: a shelter for the clever ones and a trap for the not-so-clever. View proverb
Madagascan Proverb
Sorrow is like a precious treasure, shown only to friends. View proverb
Madagascan Proverb
Do not be like a miser who saves for those who will bury him. View proverb
Madagascan Proverb
Let your love be like the misty rains, coming softly, but flooding the river. View proverb
Madagascan Proverb