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Pissing in your shoes won't keep your feet warm for long.

Proverbs and old sayings Icelandic

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

Proverbs and old sayings Icelandic

There men so poor that the only thing they have is money.

Proverbs and old sayings Icelandic about things, money, man

Although he comes and cuts me down, I'll grow next spring.

Proverbs and old sayings Icelandic about spring

It?s better to stand on your own feet than someone else? s.

Proverbs and old sayings Icelandic

A man yearns for his paradise but it could become his hell.

Proverbs and old sayings Icelandic about paradise, hell, man

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

Proverbs and old sayings Icelandic about sun

His door already has the hard part of the journey behind him.

Proverbs and old sayings Icelandic

Every story has two sides and every song has twelve versions.

Proverbs and old sayings Icelandic

A story is only half told if there is only one side presented.

Proverbs and old sayings Icelandic

A man's will can be his paradise, but it can also be his hell.

Proverbs and old sayings Icelandic about paradise, hell, man

There are seven different kind of weather in one autumn night.

Proverbs and old sayings Icelandic about autumn, weather, night

A fall bodes a lucky journey from the house but not toward it.

Proverbs and old sayings Icelandic about fall, home, house

You will reach your destination even though you travel slowly.

Proverbs and old sayings Icelandic

Be straightforward in all your dealing and noble with strangers.

Proverbs and old sayings Icelandic

It is better to be a master in a cottage than servant in a castle.

Proverbs and old sayings Icelandic

Often a troll-woman is under fair skin, and virtue under dark hair.

Proverbs and old sayings Icelandic about dark, virtue, woman

My enemy isn't the one who harms me, but the one who makes me evil.

Proverbs and old sayings Icelandic about enemies

It would be good to have two mouths and speak to yourself with both.

Proverbs and old sayings Icelandic about good, good luck

She who dances with the chimney sweeper will eventually end up black.

Proverbs and old sayings Icelandic about magic, end