Expect nothing from friends, do what you can do yourself.

More Swedish Proverbs

• 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.
• 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.
• Laid card lies.
• Shared joy is a double joy; shared sorrow is half a sorrow.
• The most important thing is not to win, but to fight well.
• Don’t cross the stream to find water.