More Swedish Proverbs
- 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.
- 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.
- One must take matters into one’s own hands.
- An accident rarely comes alone.
- All roads lead to Rome.
- When God brings death, the devil brings heirs.
- Luck never gives; it only lends.