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He who willingly gives you a finger will also give you the whole hand.

Proverbs and old sayings Gypsy about gypsies

Where the scythe cuts and the sock rives, no more fairies and bee-hives.

Proverbs and old sayings Gypsy about gypsies

When do we have a day of fast? When there is no bread and ham in the larder.

Proverbs and old sayings Gypsy about gypsies, fasting, day

You can count the apples on a tree but you can't count the trees from one apple.

Proverbs and old sayings Gypsy about gypsies

In the hour of your greatest success are sown the seeds of your own destruction.

Proverbs and old sayings Gypsy about destruction, gypsies

The patient thief is as a tree whose root runs deep as he waits for the sweet fruit..

Proverbs and old sayings Gypsy about gypsies, thieves

May your clothes rip and wear out, but may you live on in good health and fulfillment.

Proverbs and old sayings Gypsy about fulfillment, gypsies, clothes, good, good luck

I have two masters -- God and the devil; I work for the devil until lunch then I follow the Lord.

Proverbs and old sayings Gypsy about devil, gypsies, work, god

We are all wanderers on this earth. Our hearts are full of wonder, and our souls are deep with dreams.

Proverbs and old sayings Gypsy about miracle, dream, gypsies, earth

Children will tell you what they do, men what they think, and older people what they have seen and heard.

Proverbs and old sayings Gypsy about gypsies, children, people, man

A lonely old crow, see someone you know, Fly to your right, sure to be right, And if you are hawking, money before night.

Proverbs and old sayings Gypsy about rightness, gypsies, night, money, old, olderness

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.

Proverbs and old sayings Gypsy about gypsies, moon, fall, wife, man

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.

Proverbs and old sayings Gypsy about present, gypsies, family, moon