64 Gypsy Proverbs / Page 2
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He that has a white horse and a fair wife need never want for trouble.22.
He who is late may gnaw the bones.23.
He who willingly gives you a finger will also give you the whole hand.24.
I have two masters -- God and the devil; I work for the devil until lunch then I follow the Lord.25.
If a man looks upon your wife pluck out his eye and cook it in a goodly stew. If he eats the stew his manhood will wither and fall off in the next moon.26.
If you stab out the eye of thy neighbor cut off two finger and dip them in honey. Cook them in lemon curd and present them to his family in a pigeon pie. If they dine on a full moon his eye will sprout again from it's socket.27.
In the hour of your greatest success are sown the seeds of your own destruction.28.
In the village without dogs the farmers walk without sticks.29.
It is better to be the head of a mouse, then the tail of a lion.30.
It is easier to milk a cow that stands still.31.
May the witches ride off with your manhood him.32.
May you have a lawsuit in which you know you are in the right.33.
May your clothes rip and wear out, but may you live on in good health and fulfillment.34.
Neither money nor the devil can remain in peace.35.
Never eat at the table of a Priest.36.
One mad man makes many madmen: many madmen make madness.37.
One madman makes many madmen and many madmen makes madness.38.
One man may better steal a horse than another look on.39.
Our caravan is our family, and the world is our family.40.
Sometimes you get the bear and sometimes the bear gets you.