One cannot both eat one’s cookie and keep it.

More Swedish Proverbs

• He who sleeps does not sin.
• Butterflies forget that they were once caterpillars.
• Better listen to a broken string than never having bent a bow.
• What starts with a needle usually ends with a silver bowl.
• What you lose at the swings you take back at the merry-go-round.
• The stomach gets full before the eye.
• Even a blind hen can find a grain.
• Everyone knows the monkey, but the monkey knows no one.
• The young should be taught, the old should be honored.
• Cookie searches for a wife.
• Who is chasing after another must himself rest.
• One swallow does not a summer make.
• During the evening the lazy get in a hurry.
• To defend a wrong, is to wrong do anew.
• First to the mill will first grind.
• Where shall the ladle be if not in the cauldron?
• The devil visits the rich too – but he visits the poor twice.
• Rome was not built in one day.
• Own hearth is gold worth.
• Variety delights.
• One should not add oil to the fire.
• A man without money is like a boat without sails.
• Self-praise stinks.
• 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.