One cannot both eat one’s cookie and keep it.

More Swedish Proverbs

• Two wrongs do not make a right.
• Appearances deceive.
• Joy and sorrow are next door neighbors.
• One should not offer cinnamon rolls to baker’s children.
• Better late than never.
• Time heals all wounds.
• What breaks in a moment may take years to mend.
• Evil shall by evil be expelled.
• You never get tired of working for yourself.
• Lovely flowers fade fast.
• Don’t look a gift horse in the mouth.
• Honesty lasts the longest.
• Dear child has many names.
• After the rain the grass will grow; after wine, conversation.
• You have to correct your mouth according to your lunch pack.
• You don’t miss the cow until the stall is empty.
• Do not throw the baby out with the bathwater.
• Forbidden road is often heavily worn.
• From children, drunkards and madmen you get to hear the truth.
• He who whispers lies.
• To separate is to die a little.
• God gives every bird his worm, but he does not throw it into the nest.
• A rolling stone gathers no moss.
• No trees grow to the sky.
• Money does not grow on trees.
• The more chefs, the worse the soup.
• If the head is dumb, the body suffers.