Norse Proverbs (61 Proverbs)
- A man who has his feet hacked off cannot scurry far.
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- In thy home be joyous and generous to guests discreet shalt thou be in thy bearing.
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- Rejoice not ever at tidings of ill, but glad let thy soul be in good.
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- Thou shalt never sleep in the arms of a sorceress, lest she should lock thy limbs.
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- A righteous man by praise will render thee firm in favor and love.
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- It is the still and silent sea that drowns a man.
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- Rise never at nighttime, except thou art spying.
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- To be without silver is better than to be without honor.
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- At every door-way, ere one enters, one should spy round.
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- It's best to search while the trail is new.
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- Seek not ever to draw to thyself in love-whispering another's wife.
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- Two heads cut off and thrown high into the tree have only the winds with which to scheme..
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- Be never the first with friend of thine to break the bond of fellowship.
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- Less good than they say for the sons of men is the drinking oft of ale: for the more they drink, the less can they think and keep a watch o'er their wits.
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- So shall she charm that thou shalt not heed the council, or words of the king.
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- We speak them fairest when thoughts are falsest and wile the wisest of hearts.
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- Be not a shoemaker nor yet a shaft maker save for thyself alone: let the shoe be misshapen, or crooked the shaft, and a curse on thy head will be called.
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- Let him speak soft words and offer wealth who longs for a woman's love.
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- Tell not ever an evil man if misfortunes thee befall.
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- Whim rules the child, and weather the field, each is open to chance.
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- Brawl with a pig and you go away with his stink.
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- Let no man glory in the greatness of his mind, but rather keep watch o'er his wits.
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- The foolish man lies awake all night Thinking of his many problems; When the morning comes he is worn out And his trouble is just as it was.
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- With his ears let him listen, and look with his eyes; thus each wise man spies out the way.
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- Care shall gnaw thy heart if thou canst not tell all thy mind to another.
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- Let none put faith in the first sown fruit.
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- The head only knows what lies nearest the heart.
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- Wounded to death by the words of an evil woman.
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- Cattle die and kinsmen die, thyself too soon must die, but one thing never, I ween, will die, The doom on each one dead.
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- Let the wary stranger who seeks refreshment keep silent with sharpened hearing.
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- The lame runs if he has to.
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- You don't have to put out the fire when all is ash.
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- Deceit sleeps with greed.
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- Many a sweet maid when one knows her mind is fickle found towards men.
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- The madman often tells the truth.
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- Fear the reckoning of those you have wronged.
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- Much pressed is he who fain on the hearth would seek for warmth and weal.
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- The man that walks his own rode, walks alone.
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- Happy is he who hath in himself praise and wisdom in life.
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- Never in speech with a foolish knave shouldst thou waste a single word.
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- The shame you cannot lift away, you had better let lie.
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- A bird of Unmindfulness flutters o'er ale feasts.
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- He hath need of his wits who wanders wide.
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- No friend is he who but flatters.
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- The speech of a maiden should no man trust nor the words which a woman says; for their hearts were shaped on a whirling wheel and falsehood fixed in their breasts.
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- A cleaved head no longer plots.
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- He that learns naught will never know how one is the fool of another, for if one be rich another is poor and for that should bear no blame.
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- Of runes they spoke, and the reading of runes was little withheld from their lips.
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- The summer moments always pass quickly.
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- A club drenched in blood easily finds its mark.
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- I saw and was silent, I saw and pondered, I listened to the speech of men.
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- One who sees his friends roasted on a spit tells all he knows.
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- The wolf and the dog do not play together.
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- A head stuck on a pike no longer conspires.
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- If haply a fool should find for himself wealth or a woman's love, pride waxes in him but wisdom never and onward he fares in his folly.
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- Praise day at even, a wife when dead, a weapon when tried, a maid when married, ice when 'tis crossed, and ale when 'tis drunk.
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- There is mingling in friendship when man can utter all his whole mind to another.
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- A lying tongue had bereft him of life, and all without reason of right.
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- In sweet converse call the righteous to thy side, learn a healing song while thou livest.
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- Put to the sword those that disagree.
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- There is naught so vile as a fickle tongue.
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