“Pissing in your shoes won’t keep your feet warm for long.”

The more renowned woman often has fewer rings.

It is an ill bird that fouls its own nest; Don’t wash your dirty linen in public.

All is not gold that glistereth.

All sails do not suit every ship.

Politeness costs little but yields much.

Those who get praised most loudly, disappoint me the most.

Blind is a man without a book.

Tell me who you walk with, and I’ll tell you who you are.

Cultures are born and die, but the cheese is immortal.

The sun that melts the wox is the same that hardens the mud.

Children generally follow the example of their parents, but imitate their faults more surely than their virtues.

If you get lost in an Icelandic forest, simply stand up and you will find your way.

Better be alone than in bad company.

Hate not the man, but the weakness.

Gold glitters in what is thrown away.

The man is as good as the day is long.