Aromanian proverbs How can you recognize a bird By the way it sings and How can you recognize a boor By the way he speaks For He is as civil as a hedge and will skin your face A boor Never knows his place As How can a sheperd tell a good thing from a bad one An uncouth man is like wood unplaned You suddenly find He raps out something at you like a whack Saying Don t think of what I was better look at what I am And Don t look at the coat see what s under it And don t scurb every pig you see or you won t long be clean yourself But Beware of a gipsy turned a Turk or of a boor turned a Greek Beware of God s wrath of a king s ire and a boor s squeal