64 Gypsy Proverbs / Page 3
- 21. 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.
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