More Swedish Proverbs
- Do not cross the brook for water.
- Opportunity makes the thief.
- Don’t shoot yourself in the foot.
- Give a servant a proper meal and the cow will give more milk and the cat will drink less.
- Sweep first before your own door, before you sweep the doorsteps of your neighbors.
- One time, no time – two times, a habit.
- If you are among the roses, your friends will look for you among the thorns.
- No trees grow to the sky.
- Money does not grow on trees.
- The more chefs, the worse the soup.
- If the head is dumb, the body suffers.
- Injury makes you wise.
- Even the best can make mistakes.
- Necessity is the mother of invention.
- Death is the last doctor.
- Money does not smell.
- If there is room in the heart, there is room for the behind.
- Each smith has his custom.
- The miser is his own mother-in-law.
- Only Sweden has Swedish gooseberries.
- Patience is the art of hoping.
- In darkness all cats are grey.
- He who saves, has.
- To lazy pigs the ground is always frozen.
- A journey of a thousand miles always begins with a single step.
- That day, that sorrow.
- Self is the best farmhand.