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Sweet is the smell from your own ass.

Proverbs and old sayings Icelandic

Fertile is water that runs under lava.

Proverbs and old sayings Icelandic about water

An unlucky girl may make a good woman.

Proverbs and old sayings Icelandic about woman, good, good luck

One half our fatherlands is the ocean.

Proverbs and old sayings Icelandic

The man is as good as the day is long.

Proverbs and old sayings Icelandic about day, good, good luck, man

Necessity teaches naked woman to spin.

Proverbs and old sayings Icelandic about woman

Easily grasped are the crimes of a hog.

Proverbs and old sayings Icelandic about criminals

No one wants to remember his childhood.

Proverbs and old sayings Icelandic about childhood

Every honest miller has a thumb of gold.

Proverbs and old sayings Icelandic

The generous and bold have the best lives.

Proverbs and old sayings Icelandic

Strong legs are needed to carry good days.

Proverbs and old sayings Icelandic about day, good, good luck

Few are like father, no one is like mother.

Proverbs and old sayings Icelandic about mother

Hunger, work, and sweat are the best herbs.

Proverbs and old sayings Icelandic about hunger, work

The twigs are rarely better than the trunk.

Proverbs and old sayings Icelandic

Every man likes the smell of his own farts.

Proverbs and old sayings Icelandic about man

Better wise language than well combed hair.

Proverbs and old sayings Icelandic about language

Character is always corrupted by prosperity.

Proverbs and old sayings Icelandic about corruption, prosperity, character

You will not choke on big words and pig fat.

Proverbs and old sayings Icelandic

A dog bites the stone, not him who throws it.

Proverbs and old sayings Icelandic

Often does one desire what one does not need.

Proverbs and old sayings Icelandic about need