More Swedish Proverbs
- Angry cats get scratched skin.
- Evil gun powder doesn’t go away easily.
- The nail that sticks out gets struck.
- 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.
- What one’s head lacks one has to have in one’s legs.
- Insight is more valuable than gold.
- Even a fool when he holdeth his peace is counted wise.
- Advice should be viewed from behind.
- To speak is silver, to keep silent is gold.
- When you’re speaking about the trolls, they’re standing in the entrance hall listening.
- Quick wealth makes the man suspicious.
- A clenched fist can neither give nor take.
- Own praise has a bad smell.
- ‘If it isn’t one thing it’s the other’ said the girl with a nosebleed.
- Expect nothing from friends, do what you can do yourself.
- It will be like it will be.
- Through yourself you know others.
- ‘Sour’ said the fox about rowanberries.
- If you marry money the devil lays an egg in your storeroom.
- Treat others as you would want to be treated yourself.
- Work is half of health.
- Rather an honest ‘no’ than an insincere ‘yes’.
- Don’t celebrate until you have crossed the creek.