Icelandic Proverbs (113 Proverbs)
- All is not gold that glistereth.
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- Everyone gets argr as he gets older.
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- It is better one time to see things than one hundred times to hear about them.
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- One enemy is too many; 100 friends are far too few.
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- The man is as good as the day is long.
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- All sails do not suit every ship.
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- Fertile is water that runs under lava.
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- It is better to be a master in a cottage than servant in a castle.
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- One half our fatherlands is the ocean.
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- The more renowned woman often has fewer rings.
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- Although he comes and cuts me down, I'll grow next spring.
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- Gold and green woods.
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- It is better to suffer in name the truth than being rewarded for lying.
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- Our good life sure is there for us, unless we learned some bad conduct in our home as children.
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- The sun that melts the wox is the same that hardens the mud.
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- An offer of friendship to a friend's foe is unbecoming an honorable man.
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- Gold glitters in what is thrown away.
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- It?s better to stand on your own feet than someone else?s.
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- People come where people are.
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- The twigs are rarely better than the trunk.
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- An unlucky girl may make a good woman.
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- Hate not the man, but the weakness.
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- Let him who has enough be satisfied.
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- Pissing in your shoes won't keep your feet warm for long.
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- There are seven different kind of weather in one autumn night.
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- Be straightforward in all your dealing and noble with strangers.
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- He who knows only few things, has little to forget.
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- Men do not limp while their legs are the same length.
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- She who dances with the chimney sweeper will eventually end up black.
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- There men so poor that the only thing they have is money.
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- Better shoeless than bookless.
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- He who puts giants to flight rapidly advances.
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- Money makes monkeys of men.
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- Sin is not perfect until one prides oneself on it.
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- Tomorrow says the lazy.
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- A bad rower blames the oar.
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- Beware the man who does not drink.
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- His door already has the hard part of the journey behind him.
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- More flies mean more food.
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- Slow and sure.
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- Trusty as a troll.
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- A dog bites the stone, not him who throws it.
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- Blind is a man without a book.
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- Iceland is the best land on which the sun shines.
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- My enemy isn't the one who harms me, but the one who makes me evil.
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- Speak the truth, but keep one hand on the sword.
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- Useless wisdom is doulbe foolishness.
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- A fall bodes a lucky journey from the house but not toward it.
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- Cattle die, kinsmen die, and so shall you die too. But one thing I know that never dies: the fame of a dead man's deeds.
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- If one calls in the forest will one get a response.
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- No one has mercy by Magnus.
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- Speak what needs to be said, or stay silenth.
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- When your neighbor's wall breaks, your own is in danger.
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- A fat woman warms the night.
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- Character is always corrupted by prosperity.
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- If only the wind would turn before I go home, said the woman rowing against the wind.
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- No one wants to remember his childhood.
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- Spoken words cannot be taken back.
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- Words of insults are futile, the more they fit, the more they are lost.
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- A man too busy to take care of his health is like a farmer too lazy to plant his field.
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- Christ is powerful, but more powerful is destiny.
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- If the icy snow carries you at midsummer, then we can expect a late spring.
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- Not much is worse than a troll.
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- Strong legs are needed to carry good days.
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- You do not really know your friends from your enemies until the ice breaks.
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- A man without a book is blind.
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- Cultures are born and die, but the cheese is immortal.
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- If you cry because the sun has gone out of your life, your tears will prevent you from seeing the stars.
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- Often a troll-woman is under fair skin, and virtue under dark hair.
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- Sweet is the smell from your own ass.
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- You will not choke on big words and pig fat.
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- A man's will can be his paradise, but it can also be his hell.
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- Dragons often rise up on their tail.
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- If you get lost in an Icelandic forest, simply stand up and you will find your way.
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- Often does one desire what one does not need.
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- Talk doesn't plow the field.
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- You will reach your destination even though you travel slowly.
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- A quarter depends on cultivation.
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- Easily grasped are the crimes of a hog.
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- If you travel for a day, take bread for a week.
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