Lovely flowers fade fast.

More Swedish Proverbs

• Much wants more.
• Politicians are like crocodiles – big jaws but no ears.
• A peacock has too little in its head and too much in its tail.
• As one is dressed one will be judged.
• You cannot ask more of an ox than a steak.
• The water you collect from the stream teaches you about its source.
• A hundred tailors, a hundred millers, and a hundred weavers make three hundred thieves.
• Rather one bird in the hand, than ten in the woods.
• Don’t waste gunpowder on dead crows.
• Love has produced some heroes but even more idiots.
• Afterwards is no advice.
• When it rains on the priest, it dripples on the sacristan.
• Distress knows no law.
• A soft answer calms the wrath.
• Don’t saw off the branch you’re sitting on.
• Eyes that do not cry, do not see.
• When a blind man carries the lame man, both go forward.
• Worry often gives a small thing a big shadow.
• There must be some moderation.
• Better breadless than clueless.
• If you say ‘A’ you have to say ‘B’.
• Choose your bedfellows by day.
• You should not judge a dog by its fur.
• A chain is no stronger than its weakest link.
• The exception confirms the rule.
• Love is blind.
• Let him who is without sin cast the first stone.