130 Malagasy Proverbs / Page 5
- 41. Don't help a bull out of a ditch, for when he's out he'll butt you.
 - 42. Don't kick a sleeping dog.
- 43. Don't praise your wife before a year.
- 44. Don't take a second mouthful before you have swallowed the first.
- 45. Don't think there are no sharks because the water is calm.
- 46. Done in by his own trade like a water merchant in the rain.
- 47. Even the bottom of a basket finds something to hold.
- 48. Even the dead in their family vaults enjoy being in large company.
- 49. Flatters, like rats, tickle and then bite.
- 50. Flint and gunpowder: every time they meet there is an explosion.
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