130 Malagasy Proverbs / Page 5
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One can't give a grasshopper to a child if one has not caught it yet.82.
One does not like hot, the other does not like cold; make it tepid to make an agreement.83.
Only thin dogs become wild.84.
Other people's children cause your nostrils to flare.85.
People are like eels in the water, they wander this way and that.86.
People are like plants in the wind: they bow down and rise up again.87.
Poverty won't allow him to lift up his head; dignity won't allow him to bow it down.88.
Power corrupts.89.
Roosters' tail feathers: pretty but always behind.90.
Sadness is a valuable treasure -- only discovered in people you love.91.
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.92.
Sick people are like kings.93.
Sorrow is like rice in an attic: you use a little every day and at the end it is all gone.94.
The barking dog gives you no power -- it gives you fear.95.
The child of a rat is a rat.96.
The dog's bark is not might but fright.97.
The dying person cannot wait for the shroud to be woven.98.
The earth is a giant cooking pot and men are the meat therein.99.
The earth is God's bride -- she feeds the living and cherishes the dead.100.
The eel that got away is as fat as your thigh.