390 Swedish Proverbs / Page 7
121. From children old people arise.
122. From damage one may get wiser.
123. Give a servant a proper meal and the cow will give more milk and the cat will drink less.
124. Give equal in reply, answer according to the call.
125. Give the white child so that the black child doesn't cry.
126. God gives every bird a worm, but he does not throw it into the nest.
127. God gives every bird his worm, but he does not throw it into the nest.
128. Good day, axe-handles.
129. Grasp all, lose all.
130. Hard bread does the cheek red.
131. Have a fire for the crows.
132. He gets a tailwind who bothers to wait.
133. He laughs best who laughs last.
134. He who builds and he who marries are never safe.
135. He who cannot keep silence cannot speak.
136. He who digs a pit for someone else, often falls into it himself.
137. He who fears every bush, comes late to the wood.
138. He who has long fingers should also have long legs.
139. He who laughs the last, laughs the best.
140. Here there will be different buns, said the baker, he "sat down" on the bread shovel.