“You can catch a cricket in your hand but its song is all over the field.” – Malagasy proverb
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Don’t Quote Me, Vol. 369
“One does not like hot, the other does not like cold; make it tepid to make an agreement”
- Malagasy proverb
Don’t Quote Me, Vol. 368
“Don’t bypass a town where there’s a friend” – Malagasy proverb
Don’t Quote Me, Vol. 367
“If you ford the river in a crowd, the crocodiles won’t get you” – Malagasy proverb
Don’t Quote Me, Vol. 365
“Don’t take a second mouthful before you have swallowed the first.”
- Malagasy proverb
Don’t Quote Me, Vol. 362
“Don’t help a bull out of a ditch, for when he’s out he’ll butt you.” – Malagasy proverb
Don’t Quote Me, Vol. 361
“People don’t take trips – trips take people.” – John Steinbeck
Don’t Quote Me, Vol. 360
“All who live under the sky are woven together like one big mat.”
- Malagasy proverb
Don’t Quote Me, Vol. 358
“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.”
- Malagasy proverb
Don’t Quote Me, Vol. 357
“A patient that can swallow food makes the nurse doubtful.”
- Malagasy proverb
Don’t Quote Me, Vol. 356
“Nothing is so difficult that diligence cannot master it.”
- Malagasy proverb
Don’t Quote Me, Vol. 344
“A canoe does not know who is king. When it turns over, everyone gets wet.”
- Malagasy proverb
Don’t Quote Me, Vol. 337
“Distracted by what is far away, he does not see his nose.” – Malagasy proverb
Don’t Quote Me, Vol. 331
“Power corrupts.” – Malagasy proverb
