It is better to suffer in name the truth than being rewarded for lying.

More Icelandic Proverbs

• If you get lost in an Icelandic forest, simply stand up and you will find your way.
• Our good life sure is there for us, unless we learned some bad conduct in our home as children.
• She who dances with the chimney sweeper will eventually end up black.
• It is better to suffer in the name of truth than being rewarded for lying.
• It is better to be a master in a cottage than servant in a castle.
• Children generally follow the example of their parents, but imitate their faults more surely than their virtues.
• You do not really know your friends from your enemies until the ice breaks.
• The sun that melts the wox is the same that hardens the mud.
• People come where people are.
• Strike while the iron is hot.
• The sun that melts the wox is the same that hardens the mud.
• A good beginning makes a good ending.
• There are men so poor that the only thing they have is money.
• There are seven different kind of weather in one autumn night.
• If you wish to know what a man is, make him king.
• Cultures are born and die, but the cheese is immortal.
• Children will thrive best on varied diet.
• If wishes were horses, beggars would ride.
• Be straightforward in all your dealing and noble with strangers.
• Faint heart never won fair lady.
• Tell me who you walk with, and I’ll tell you who you are.
• It is better one time to see things than one hundred times to hear about them.
• There are seven different kind of weather in one autumn night.
• You will reach your destination even though you travel slowly.
• Blind is a man without a book.
• Although he comes and cuts me down, I’ll grow next spring.
• Every man is defenseless unless he has a brother or a friend.