Wednesday, May 14, 2014

1000 Years Old Viking Wisdom

It is the still and silent sea that drowns a man

Let him speak soft words and offer wealth who longs for a woman's love

No friend is he who but flatters

The madman often tells the truth

Two heads cut off and thrown high into the tree have only the winds with which to scheme

You don't have to put out the fire when all is ash

Whim rules the child, and weather the field, each is open to chance

Seek not ever to draw to thyself in love-whispering to another's wife

Tell not ever an evil man if misfortunes thee befall

The man that walks his own road, will always walks alone

The shame you cannot lift away, you had better let lie

Never in speech with a foolish knave should thou waste a single word

Brawl with a pig and you go away with his stink

I saw and was silent, I saw and pondered, I listened to the speech of men


Be never the first with friend of thine to break the bond of fellowship

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