Reality surpasses the poem.

More Swedish Proverbs

• When a blind man carries the lame man, both go forward.
• Worry often gives a small thing a big shadow.
• There must be some moderation.
• Better breadless than clueless.
• If you say ‘A’ you have to say ‘B’.
• Choose your bedfellows by day.
• Much wants more.
• Politicians are like crocodiles – big jaws but no ears.
• A peacock has too little in its head and too much in its tail.
• As one is dressed one will be judged.
• You cannot ask more of an ox than a steak.
• The water you collect from the stream teaches you about its source.
• A hundred tailors, a hundred millers, and a hundred weavers make three hundred thieves.
• Rather one bird in the hand, than ten in the woods.
• Don’t waste gunpowder on dead crows.
• Love has produced some heroes but even more idiots.
• Afterwards is no advice.
• When it rains on the priest, it dripples on the sacristan.
• Distress knows no law.
• A soft answer calms the wrath.
• Don’t saw off the branch you’re sitting on.
• Eyes that do not cry, do not see.
• Old is oldest.
• An ounce of lying saves tons of explanations.
• Each thing has its time.
• No one is indispensable.
• Taste is like the buttocks, divided.