When the mouse is full, the flour tastes bitter.

More Swedish Proverbs

• It is easy to cut broad strips off other people’s leather.
• As you shout you get will be answered.
• The smith’s horse and the shoemakers children are worst shod.
• Envy never rests.
• Close does not shoot any hares.
• He who lives shall see.
• One learns from mistakes.
• Happiness comes happiness leaves.
• The afternoon knows what the morning never suspected.
• Midsummer night is not long but it sets many cradles rocking.
• Better to keep quiet than to speak poorly .
• If a blind one leads another, they both fall together.
• Death is God’s broom.
• What you do not know does not hurt you.
• Better to dam the brook than the creek.
• When the sea is calm, every ship has a good captain.
• Adversity exists to be overcome.
• It is more blissful to give than to receive.
• An upstanding peasant is bigger than a nobleman on his knees.
• When the mouse is full, the flour tastes bitter.
• Let the food silence the mouth.
• Don’t throw away the old bucket until you know whether the new one holds water.
• Morning hour has gold in its mouth.
• Such father, such son.
• Each person is the forger of his own happiness.
• What is unclearly said is unclearly thought.
• It is better to free someone guilty than to convict someone innocent.