“Wake early if you want another man’s life or land. No lamb for the lazy wolf. No battle’s won in bed..”
— The Håvamål, stanza 23
“The coward believes he will live forever If he holds back in battle, But in old age he shall have no peace Though spears have spared his limbs.”
— The Håvamål, stanza 16
“If you have a friend and think well of him, visit him often, for thickets grow and grass gets high on the path where no one walks.”
— Håvamål, stanza 119
“The past is the mirror that reflects the future.”
— Snorri Sturluson, The Younger Edda, around 1220