It is better to suffer in name the truth than being rewarded for lying.
Proverbs and old sayings Icelandic about lie, suffering, name, being, truth
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Words of insults are futile, the more they fit, the more they are lost.
Proverbs and old sayings Icelandic about insults
An offer of friendship to a friend's foe is unbecoming an honorable man.
Proverbs and old sayings Icelandic about friendship, man
You do not really know your friends from your enemies until the ice breaks.
Proverbs and old sayings Icelandic about enemies
If the icy snow carries you at midsummer, then we can expect a late spring.
Proverbs and old sayings Icelandic about spring
You can't complain about the sea if you suffer shipwreck for the second time.
Proverbs and old sayings Icelandic about suffering, time
It is better one time to see things than one hundred times to hear about them.
Proverbs and old sayings Icelandic about things, time
If you get lost in an Icelandic forest, simply stand up and you will find your way.
Proverbs and old sayings Icelandic
If only the wind would turn before I go home, said the woman rowing against the wind.
Proverbs and old sayings Icelandic about home, woman
Our good life sure is there for us, unless we learned some bad conduct in our home as children.
Proverbs and old sayings Icelandic about conduct, children, home, life, bad luck, bad, good, good luck
If you cry because the sun has gone out of your life, your tears will prevent you from seeing the stars.
Proverbs and old sayings Icelandic about celebrity, stars, tears, sun, life
On the ladder to success there is always somebody on the rung above you and who uses your head to steady himself.
Proverbs and old sayings Icelandic about heads
Cattle die, kinsmen die, and so shall you die too. But one thing I know that never dies: the fame of a dead man's deeds.
Proverbs and old sayings Icelandic about fame, deeds, things, man
