All sails do not suit every ship.
More Icelandic Proverbs:
No one wants to remember his childhood.Icelandic
Two make an army against one.
Icelandic
Speak what needs to be said, or stay silenth.
Icelandic
It is better to be a master in a cottage than servant in a castle.
Icelandic
All old sayings have something in them.
Icelandic
All is not gold that glistereth.
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