Better to be a poor woman than the slave of the rich.

More Swedish Proverbs

• 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.
• 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.
• It is easy to cut broad strips off other people’s leather.
• As you shout you get will be answered.
• The smith’s horse and the shoemakers children are worst shod.
• Envy never rests.
• Close does not shoot any hares.