When the mouse is full, the flour tastes bitter.

More Swedish Proverbs

• Hurry slowly.
• The donkey is known by his ears, the fool by his words.
• Don’t look a gift horse in the mouth.
• To lazy pigs the ground is always frozen.
• A journey of a thousand miles always begins with a single step.
• That day, that sorrow.
• Self is the best farmhand.
• Whichever way you turn you have your end in the back.
• Burnt child shuns fire.
• Laid card lies.
• Shared joy is a double joy; shared sorrow is half a sorrow.
• The most important thing is not to win, but to fight well.
• Don’t cross the stream to find water.
• Gold blinds many, love blinds all.
• If you buy what you don’t need, you steal from yourself.
• Better loved and lost than never loved.
• All aren’t gold that glimmers.
• Sleeping farmer gets a dreaming farmhand.
• Grab the bull by its horns.
• Thin mosquitoes bite the worse.
• Love me when I least deserve it, because that is when I need it the most.
• Take the custom where you come.
• The end is good, everything is good.
• Don’t praise the day before the sun has set.
• They who want to sing will always find a song.
• The closer to the source, the clearer the water.
• The way the devil reads the bible.