More Swedish Proverbs
- Easier said than done.
- Money opens all gates but heaven’s.
- Of what fills the heart speaks the mouth.
- The walls have ears.
- A small tuft often overturns a big load.
- The day we fear hastens toward us, the day we long for creeps.
- Each bird sings according to its own beak.
- He who bids for much, often loses all.
- As you sow, so shall you reap.
- The apple does not fall far from the tree.
- Pride goes before fall.
- Each day has enough of its own misery.
- In the calmest waters swim the ugliest fish.
- After rain comes sunshine.
- One cannot both eat one’s cookie and keep it.
- Weeds last the season.
- Warned is armed.
- Practice gives skill.
- Health is quietly keeping silent .
- Small pots have ears too.
- Ingratitude is the world’s reward.
- If it tastes good it is expensive.
- The afternoon knows what the morning never suspected.
- Midsummer night is not long but it sets many cradles rocking.
- Better to keep quiet than to speak poorly .
- If a blind one leads another, they both fall together.
- Death is God’s broom.