Wednesday, January 27, 2021
Norse Proverbs (61 Proverbs)
- A head stuck on a pike no longer conspires.
(Norse Proverb)
- Praise day at even, a wife when dead, a weapon when tried, a maid when married, ice when 'tis crossed, and ale when 'tis drunk.
(Norse Proverb)
- Fear the reckoning of those you have wronged.
(Norse Proverb)
- The man that walks his own rode, walks alone.
(Norse Proverb)
- Let him speak soft words and offer wealth who longs for a woman's love.
(Norse Proverb)
- Whim rules the child, and weather the field, each is open to chance.
(Norse Proverb)
- A lying tongue had bereft him of life, and all without reason of right.
(Norse Proverb)
- Put to the sword those that disagree.
(Norse Proverb)
- Happy is he who hath in himself praise and wisdom in life.
(Norse Proverb)
- The shame you cannot lift away, you had better let lie.
(Norse Proverb)
- Let no man glory in the greatness of his mind, but rather keep watch o'er his wits.
(Norse Proverb)
- With his ears let him listen, and look with his eyes; thus each wise man spies out the way.
(Norse Proverb)
- A man who has his feet hacked off cannot scurry far.
(Norse Proverb)
- Rejoice not ever at tidings of ill, but glad let thy soul be in good.
(Norse Proverb)
- He hath need of his wits who wanders wide.
(Norse Proverb)
- The speech of a maiden should no man trust nor the words which a woman says; for their hearts were shaped on a whirling wheel and falsehood fixed in their breasts.
(Norse Proverb)
- Let none put faith in the first sown fruit.
(Norse Proverb)
- Wounded to death by the words of an evil woman.
(Norse Proverb)
- A righteous man by praise will render thee firm in favor and love.
(Norse Proverb)
- Rise never at nighttime, except thou art spying.
(Norse Proverb)
- He that learns naught will never know how one is the fool of another, for if one be rich another is poor and for that should bear no blame.
(Norse Proverb)
- The summer moments always pass quickly.
(Norse Proverb)
- Let the wary stranger who seeks refreshment keep silent with sharpened hearing.
(Norse Proverb)
- You don't have to put out the fire when all is ash.
(Norse Proverb)
- At every door-way, ere one enters, one should spy round.
(Norse Proverb)
- Seek not ever to draw to thyself in love-whispering another's wife.
(Norse Proverb)
- I saw and was silent, I saw and pondered, I listened to the speech of men.
(Norse Proverb)
- The wolf and the dog do not play together.
(Norse Proverb)
- Many a sweet maid when one knows her mind is fickle found towards men.
(Norse Proverb)
- Be never the first with friend of thine to break the bond of fellowship.
(Norse Proverb)
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