118 Icelandic Proverbs / Page 2
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Bad birds seldom bring good weather.22.
Be straightforward in all your dealing and noble with strangers.23.
Better shoeless than bookless.24.
Better to drink the milk than to eat the cow.25.
Better wise language than well combed hair.26.
Beware the man who does not drink.27.
Blind is a man without a book.28.
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.29.
Character is always corrupted by prosperity.30.
Christ is powerful, but more powerful is destiny.31.
Cultures are born and die, but the cheese is immortal.32.
Dragons often rise up on their tail.33.
Easily grasped are the crimes of a hog.34.
Every honest miller has a thumb of gold.35.
Every man likes the smell of his own farts.36.
Every story has two sides and every song has twelve versions.37.
Everyone gets argr as he gets older.38.
Everyone wants to live long, but no one wants to be called old.39.
Fertile is water that runs under lava.40.
Few are like father, no one is like mother.