Often does one desire what one does not need.
More Icelandic Proverbs:
The twigs are rarely better than the trunk.Icelandic
There men so poor that the only thing they have is money.
Icelandic
Tell me who you walk with, and I'll tell you who you are.
Icelandic
My enemy isn't the one who harms me, but the one who makes me evil.
Icelandic
Mediocrity is climbing molehills without sweating.
Icelandic
A fall bodes a lucky journey from the house but not toward it.
Icelandic