Some Famous Swedes' Quotes and Proverbs

"Living in Africa had made me a better European. From a distance, I could see the cracks (in Europe) more clearly." - Henning Mankell, best selling Swedish author, qoute taken from Scanorama magazine, March 2007.

“Success is getting what you want; happiness is wanting what you get." - Ingrid Bergman

“I hope I never get so old I get religious.” - Ingmar Bergman, movie director

“What makes loneliness an anguish is not that I have no one to share my burden, but this: I have only my own burden to bear.” - Dag Hammarskjold, Swedish statesman

"Fear less, hope more; eat less, chew more; whine less, breathe more; talk less, say more; hate less, love more; and all good things are yours." - Swedish proverb

"What breaks in a moment may take years to mend." - Swedish proverb

"Shared joy is double joy. Shared sorrow is half sorrow." - Swedish proverb

"Those who wish to sing, always find a song." - Swedish proverb

"My greatest point is my persistence. I never give up in a match. However down I am, I fight until the last ball. My list of matches shows that I have turned a great many so-called irretrievable defeats into victories." - Bjorn Borg, one of the World's greatest tennis players, some say the best ever.

"If I have a thousand ideas and only one turns out to be good, I am satisfied." - Alfred Nobel, inventor of synomite and the Nobel prizes

"Our idea is to serve everybody, including people with little money." - Ingvar Kamprad, founder of IKEA, and source of the first two letters in IKEA.

"We have to still develop the Ikea group. We need many billions of Swiss francs to take on China or Russia." - Ingvar Kamprad

"If a tree dies, plant another in its place." - Carolus Linnaeus

"I don't sleep with happily married men." - Britt Ekland, Swedish porn star