Talk doesn’t plow the field.
More Icelandic Proverbs:
A sitting crow starves.Icelandic
Every honest miller has a thumb of gold.
Icelandic
It is better one time to see things than one hundred times to hear about them.
Icelandic
He who knows only few things, has little to forget.
Icelandic
Every story has two sides and every song has twelve versions.
Icelandic
Beware the man who does not drink.
Icelandic