

Other land blueberry own land strawberry. The apple does not fall far from the tree. The lazy man is living behind God’s back.Ī loaf of fresh baked bread brings happiness to even devils. The back has to pay for what the ears didn’t hear.Ī priest with lice in his beard brings bad luck everywhere he travels. If tar, hard liquor and sauna do not cure the disease is fatal. The world is a good teacher, but it charges a huge fee. The cake is fine on top, but there are crickets inside. The old cow forgets that she was once a calf.Ī small fire in the hearth is better than fleas in the bed. Men seek a warm hearth as termites seek rotten wood.Īge does not give sense it only makes one go slowly.Ī fool boasts of his horse, a madman of his wife, the skillfulness of his children. The path of obligation lies down the marriage aisle. Praise your horse tomorrow, your son when he has a beard, your daughter when she is married and yourself never.ĭon’t raise your club so high it will only fall on your head. He needs a long candle who awaits the death of another.Ī spot in gold and a fault in a wise man are soon visible. The cat would eat fish, too, but it wouldn’t jump into the ocean. He who shuns the millstone, shuns the meal.Ī married man has many sorrows - an unmarried man has one more. The lazy sweat when they eat and complain of the cold when they work.ĭo not protect yourself by a stone wall, but rather by your family. One cannot ski so softly that the tracks cannot be seen.Ī woman becomes her most beautiful, one hour after taking a sauna. If you borrow some chaff from the rich man you have to repay him with wheat. Who stands by the door of his house is not yet gone away.Ī child is like an axe even if it hurts, you still carry them on your shoulders. It is in the region of Uusimaa, in southern Finland, on the shore of the Gulf of Finland. Helsinki is the capital and largest city of Finland. Finnish and Swedish are the official languages of Finland. The nation is an area in the geographic region of Fennoscandia, which also includes Scandinavia and parts of the Russian federal subjects of Leningrad Oblast, Murmansk Oblast, and the Republic of Karelia. Estonia is south of the country across the Gulf of Finland.

A peninsula with the Gulf of Finland to the south and the Gulf of Bothnia to the west, the country has land borders with Sweden to the northwest, Norway to the north, and Russia to the east. Finland, officially the Republic of Finland, is a sovereign state in Europe.
