Grab the bull by its horns.

More Swedish Proverbs

• The liar will only be trusted once.
• Best to learn from other people’s injury.
• Devils have more than twelve apostles.
• When the devil grows old he turns religious.
• What is hidden in snow is revealed at thaw.
• No party without shattering.
• The grass is always greener on the other side.
• You can’t teach old dogs to sit.
• You should forge while the iron is hot.
• Children do as you do, not as you say.
• Honor whom should be honored.
• In the realm of the blind, the one-eyed man is king.
• It is to be bent in time, that which bent shall be.
• All good things are three.
• Do not wake the bear that sleeps.
• It is seldom the fault of one when two argue.
• Things never turn out the way you imagined.
• Fortune favours the bold.
• Eye for an eye, tooth for a tooth.
• Nobody is too young to die tomorrow.
• The road to hell is lined with good resolutions.
• Love is like dew that falls on both nettles and lilies.
• The dripping can hollow the stone.
• Do not throw the baby out with the bathwater.
• Forbidden road is often heavily worn.
• From children, drunkards and madmen you get to hear the truth.
• He who whispers lies.