64 Gypsy Proverbs / Page 3
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Stay where there are songs.42.
The buyer needs a hundred eyes, the horse thief not one.43.
The dog that digs deepest finds the bones.44.
The dog that trots about finds a bone.45.
The fat woman gives the sweetest ride.46.
The gypsy church was made of pork and the dogs ate it.47.
The patient thief is as a tree whose root runs deep as he waits for the sweet fruit..48.
The stick that breaks the window does not kill a dog.49.
The winter will ask what we did all summer.50.
The world is a ladder, in which some go up and others go down.51.
There are such things as false truths and honest lies.52.
They that burn you for a witch lose all their coals.53.
We are all wanderers on this earth. Our hearts are full of wonder, and our souls are deep with dreams.54.
When do we have a day of fast? When there is no bread and ham in the larder.55.
When the sea turned to honey, the poor man lost his spoon.56.
When you are given, eat, when you are beaten, run away.57.
When your drunk the old woman tastes like a virgin..58.
Where rich people can make honest money, poor people have to steal.59.
Where the scythe cuts and the sock rives, no more fairies and bee-hives.60.
Without wood the fire would die.