Better shoeless than bookless.
More Icelandic Proverbs:
A bad rower blames the oar.Icelandic
One half our fatherlands is the ocean.
Icelandic
No one has mercy by Magnus.
Icelandic
Every man likes the smell of his own farts.
Icelandic
A dog bites the stone, not him who throws it.
Icelandic
A man without a book is blind.
Icelandic