Swedish Proverb Quotations

Worry gives a small thing a big shadow.

Love is like dew that falls on both nettles and lilies

Shared joy is a double joy; shared sorrow is half a sorrow

One should go invited to a friend in good fortune, and uninvited in misfortune

No one becomes a good doctor before he fills a churchyard

Friendship doubles our joy and divides our grief.

He who buys what he doesn't need steals from himself

Wisdom is in the head and not in the beard

When it rains soup, the poor man has no spoon

When a blind man carries a lame man both go forward.

Eyes that do not cry, do not see

What breaks in a moment may take years to mend.

Don't let your sorrow come higher than your knees

Don't throw away the old bucket until you know whether the new one holds water

Fear less, hope more; Eat less, chew more; Whine less, breathe more; Talk less, say more; Love more, and all good things will be yours

A life without love is like a year without summer.

Sweep first before your own door, before you sweep the doorsteps of your neighbors

If you buy what you don't need, you steal from yourself

If I had a rose for every time I thought of you, I'd be picking roses for a lifetime.