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