It is better to be the head of a mouse, then the tail of a lion.
More Gypsy Proverbs:
It is easier to milk a cow that stands still.Gypsy
Children will tell you what they do, men what they think and older people what they have seen and heard.
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The world is a ladder, in which some go up and others go down.
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A tear in the eye is the wound of the heart.
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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.
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