Poor thanks is the way of the world.
More Norwegian Proverbs:
Better an iron dictatorship than a golden anarchy.Norwegian
You don't have to put out the fire when all is burnt out.
Norwegian
There is never a fish without a bone, and no man without faults.
Norwegian
It's no shame to look into the warm spring sun and regret a lost limb.
Norwegian
Rather free in a foreign place than a slave back home.
Norwegian