Devils have more than twelve apostles.

More Swedish Proverbs

• Don’t buy the pig in the bag.
• Sin punishes itself.
• Don’t think about the pig until it’s in the poke.
• Alone is strong.
• Clothing makes the man.
• Tis better to have loved and lost than to have never loved at all.
• The drunken man’s words is the sober man’s thoughts.
• Who sits on your shoulders will try to climb on your head.
• All is fair in love and war.
• To dare is to lose your foothold for a moment, to not dare is to lose yourself.
• When distress is the greatest, help is the nearest.
• The eyes want more than the stomach.
• A hearty laugh lengthens your life.
• In a small house God has his corner, in a large house He has to stand in the hall.
• One shouldn’t buy a pig in a sack.
• The truth comes forward in wine.
• A woman is the last judge of the man.
• Blood is thicker than water.
• Time passes by quickly when you are enjoying yourself.
• It is best to bite into the sour apple
• What doesn’t kill, hardens.
• When the cat is away, the rats dance on the table.
• New brooms sweep the best.
• Better to be a poor woman than the slave of the rich.
• No one is a prophet in one’s own homeland.
• Every cloud has a silver lining.
• Best to be without oaths.