130 Malagasy Proverbs / Page 7
- 61. If you sell a drum in your own village, you get the money and keep the sound.
 - 62. If you try to cleanse others -- just like soap, you will waste away in the process.
- 63. In a fight with a fool it's a wise man who quits.
- 64. Indecision is like the stepchild: if he doesn't wash his hands, he is called dirty; if he does, he is wasting the water.
- 65. Iron does not clang by itself.
- 66. It is better to refuse than to accept and not to go.
- 67. It is not the fire in the fireplace which warms the house, but the couple who get along well.
- 68. It is the softness of the lime that is fatal to the bird.
- 69. Let your love be like drizzle: it comes softly, but still swells the river.
- 70. Let your love be like the misty rains, coming softly, but flooding the river.
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