63 Norse Proverbs / Page 2
- 11. Be not a shoemaker nor yet a shaft maker save for thyself alone: let the shoe be misshapen, or crooked the shaft, and a curse on thy head will be called.
 - 12. Brawl with a pig and you go away with his stink.
- 13. Care shall gnaw thy heart if thou canst not tell all thy mind to another.
- 14. Cattle die and kinsmen die, thyself too soon must die, but one thing never, I ween, will die, The doom on each one dead.
- 15. Deceit sleeps with greed.
- 16. Fear the reckoning of those you have wronged.
- 17. Happy is he who hath in himself praise and wisdom in life.
- 18. He hath need of his wits who wanders wide.
- 19. He that learns naught will never know how one is the fool of another, for if one be rich another is poor and for that should bear no blame.
- 20. I saw and was silent, I saw and pondered, I listened to the speech of men.
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