Malagasy proverbs

They who drink the water from the Manangareza river always come back to Madagascar.

If you try to cleanse others -- just like soap, you will waste away in the process.

Poverty won't allow him to lift up his head; dignity won't allow him to bow it down.

You can't blame the axe for the noise made by the chicken you are about to slaughter.

One does not like hot, the other does not like cold; make it tepid to make an agreement.

Sorrow is like rice in an attic: you use a little every day and at the end it is all gone.

Without the forest, there will be no more water, without water, there will be no more rice.

Advice is a stranger; if he's welcome he stays for the night; if not, he leaves the same day.

It is not the fire in the fireplace which warms the house, but the couple who get along well.

Wealth is like hair in the nose: it hurts to be separated whether from a little or from a lot.

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