1. The child that is not crying is not rocked.

2. Beside a good wife even a bad husband is good.

3. Beside a good man the wife is also good.

4. Under a good roof the house is also good.

5. One perch makes forty buckets of fish soup.

6. If a man drinks, half the house will burn down; if the wife drinks, everything will burn down, and your life will be like a flowing river of pitch.

7. As high as a cock's comb, and as the bottom of a pig.

8. A mottled dog will never have black puppies.

1. He fell against the teeth of the harrow. (Said of a hungry man.)

2. You are propping up the stove a long time.

3. Soft as hair, straight as a barley stalk.

4. Lazy as a cat and greedy as a dog.

5. Drawing water from a raft that has fallen apart.

6. A crane said to have lighted on a spruce.

7. Oh dear, you lazy thing, you lazy thing, you poor thing, you poor thing!

8. It has neither end nor bottom.

9. There is neither cow, nor lamb, there is nothing at all.

10. Your barn is burning. (When the bridegroom brings another fiancée.)

11. His eyes are howling to leave.

12. Your lamp is like a glowworm.

13. Soft as hops and straight as a barley stalk.

1. The magpie's feathers are never changed.

2. Beside a bad wife even a good man will become bad.

3. Under a good roof a house is also good.

4. Lazy as a cat and hungry as a dog.

5. He who is poor is also lazy.

6. It is as high as the knuckle of a pig and the bladder of a hen.

7. The rich have much money, the poor have many children.

8. The meadow is beautiful when it is worked, a girl is beautiful when she is walking.

9. As she is beautiful, so beautiful are her stooks.

10. As he is ugly, so ugly are her stooks.

11. Do not make a rope of chaff!

12. The bear tears things to pieces and the bear roars.

13. A hill will not come to a hill, but man can always meet men.

14. The coal has sunk, and the stone has lifted it.

15. Stone swims in the water, coal swims on the land.

16. A three–year–old child and an old man are just the same.

1. He even pitches into the tines of a harrow (so hungry is he).

2. Nothing will stick in his mouth (he lets out every secret).

3. He butts like a cow with horns.

4. His eyes howl (he sees in every direction).

5. She lit a lamp like a glowworm (nothing can be seen).

6. It is like bailing water from a raft.

7. My head does not work (I do not understand anything).

8. He has gone mad.

9. Why do you burden the top of the stove? (Why are you lying idle?)

10. The devil came and dashed at his teeth (quarrelled).

11. I will not go even if they drag me with a tarred rope.

12. He squeezes his way in between two boats coated with pitch.

13. Do not squeeze your way between two boats coated with pitch.

14. They'll even steal his nose from between his two eyes, and he wouldn't notice it.

15. To disturb people for nothing.

16. Sit silently!

17. I'll break your head in pieces.

18. May a fiery, evil disease seize the middle of your heart!

19. How much more buttery is he (or she) (how much better is he (or she) than I?

20. Her flesh showed through her skin, her bones through her flesh, her marrow through her bones (said of beautiful women).

21. Her hands weave, and iron pops out of her mouth (she is so diligent that her teeth like iron can be seen in her mouth which is open while she is working).

22. She is so modest that her mouth does not touch bread.

23. A forehead like a stove, an exterior like bacon (can be applied to beasts as well as to humans).