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One man may better steal a horse than another look on.

Proverbs and old sayings Gypsy about gypsies, man

A hairy man's a geary man, but a hairy wife's a witch.

Proverbs and old sayings Gypsy about gypsies, wife, man

There are such things as false truths and honest lies.

Proverbs and old sayings Gypsy about gypsies, things

When you are given, eat, when you are beaten, run away.

Proverbs and old sayings Gypsy about gypsies

Our caravan is our family, and the world is our family.

Proverbs and old sayings Gypsy about family, gypsies, world

You cannot stop a whore, not even with a hundred horses.

Proverbs and old sayings Gypsy about gypsies

The buyer needs a hundred eyes, the horse thief not one.

Proverbs and old sayings Gypsy about gypsies, thieves, eyes

One mad man makes many madmen: many madmen make madness.

Proverbs and old sayings Gypsy about gypsies, man

One madman makes many madmen and many madmen makes madness.

Proverbs and old sayings Gypsy about gypsies

Sometimes you get the bear and sometimes the bear gets you.

Proverbs and old sayings Gypsy about gypsies

In the village without dogs the farmers walk without sticks.

Proverbs and old sayings Gypsy about gypsies

Bury me on my feet, I have spent my entire life on my knees.

Proverbs and old sayings Gypsy about gypsies, life

As the crow is made for stewing the dog is made for kicking.

Proverbs and old sayings Gypsy about gypsies

May you have a lawsuit in which you know you are in the right

Proverbs and old sayings Gypsy about gypsies, rightness

The world is a ladder, in which some go up and others go down.

Proverbs and old sayings Gypsy about gypsies, world

It is better to be the head of a mouse, then the tail of a lion.

Proverbs and old sayings Gypsy about gypsies, heads

A man must put grain in the ground before he can cut the harvest.

Proverbs and old sayings Gypsy about gypsies, man

A witch-wife and an evil is three-halfpence worse than the devil.

Proverbs and old sayings Gypsy about gypsies, wife, devil

Where rich people can make honest money, poor people have to steal.

Proverbs and old sayings Gypsy about gypsies, people, wealth, money

He that has a white horse and a fair wife need never want for trouble.

Proverbs and old sayings Gypsy about gypsies, need, wife