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Who wakes and rises at the first cry of the songbird collects the best fruit of the night.

Proverbs and old sayings about night

Pleasures shorten tedious nights.

Proverbs and old sayings British

The Older one marries, the longer the nights.

Proverbs and old sayings Bulgarian

Merit and glory never adorn a nightcap.

Proverbs and old sayings Indochinese about merit, glory

The man who does not learn is dark, like one walking in the night.

Proverbs and old sayings Indochinese about dark, night, man

Concealing truth is like wearing embroidered clothes and traveling by night.

Proverbs and old sayings Indochinese about clothes, night, truth

Think about your own faults during the first half of the night, and the faults of others during the second half.

Proverbs and old sayings Indochinese about night

If you curse your wife in the evening, you will sleep alone at night. A crisis is an opportunity riding the dangerous wind.

Proverbs and old sayings Indochinese about chance, sleep, night, wife

A horse cannot gain weight if not fed with extra fodder during the night; a man cannot become wealthy without earnings apart from his regular salaries.

Proverbs and old sayings Indochinese about salary, night, man

When Pisa burned, it rained three nights and three days.

Proverbs and old sayings about day

When peaches flower and ripen, days and nights have the same length.

Proverbs and old sayings about garden, day

If you wake up in the morning and feel no pain it is to be feared that you died in the night.

Proverbs and old sayings Czech about pain, night

If there are no nightingales one must settle for owls.

Proverbs and old sayings Danish

You may preach ever so long to the wolf, he will nevertheless call for the lamb before night.

Proverbs and old sayings Danish about night

When misery is highest help is nighest.

Proverbs and old sayings Dutch about help

Many seek good nights and lose good days.

Proverbs and old sayings Dutch about day, good, good luck

Many seek good nights and waste good days.

Proverbs and old sayings Dutch about day, good, good luck

Barnaby bright, Barnaby bright, the longest day and the shortest night.

Proverbs and old sayings Dutch about night, day

Age and wedlock bring a man to his nightcap.

Proverbs and old sayings English about age, olderness, man

Butter is gold in the morning, silver at noon, lead at night.

Proverbs and old sayings English about night