More Icelandic Proverbs
- 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.
- On the ladder to success there is always somebody on the rung above you and who uses your head to steady himself.
- Those who get praised most loudly, disappoint me the most.
- Everyone gets argr as he gets older.
- If the statement applies to you, admit it or do something about it.