A friend’s slap has honest intentions, your enemies’ kisses are meant to deceive.

More Swedish Proverbs

• 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.
• 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.
• Hunger is the best flavouring.
• The death of one, the bread of the other.
• A poor craftsman blames his tools.
• The strongest among the disabled is the one who never forgets his disability.
• A lazy thief is better than a lazy servant.