40 Famous Malay Proverbs

Famous Proverbs / Malay Proverbs

11. calf is given, but then thigh is requested.
12. Clapping with the right hand only will not produce a noise.
13. Do not think that placid water is without crocodiles.
14. Gold rain drops on a foreign country,wherelse rain of stones drops on our country,but our country is better.
15. If there is no reason, why would the tempua bird nest on the low branches?
16. If you have, give; if you lack, seek.
17. If you want something, you'll do a thousand things to obtain it. But if you don't want something, you'll give a thousand excuses to refrain from it.
18. Just because you are irritated by a mosquito, you burn the mosquito curtain.
19. Like a monkey who eats belacaan.
20. Like the peanut, who forgets its shell.