118 Icelandic Proverbs / Page 3
- 21. Bad birds seldom bring good weather.
 - 22. Be straightforward in all your dealing and noble with strangers.
- 23. Better shoeless than bookless.
- 24. Better to drink the milk than to eat the cow.
- 25. Better wise language than well combed hair.
- 26. Beware the man who does not drink.
- 27. Blind is a man without a book.
- 28. 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.
- 29. Character is always corrupted by prosperity.
- 30. Christ is powerful, but more powerful is destiny.
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