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A witless man, when he meets with men,Had best in silence abide;For no one shall find that nothing he knows,If his mouth is not open too much.(But a man knows not, if nothing he knows,When his mouth has been open too much.)Hávamál, translated by Henry Adams Bellows, in The Poetic Edda (1923). Public-domain transcription sourced from Project Gutenberg ebook 73533.
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