Search in folklore: sleep

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Sleeping shrimp gets taken by the current.

Proverbs and old sayings

Saints sleep three hours, merchants sleep five, ordinary people seven and the lazy sleep nine.

Proverbs and old sayings Sicilian about sleep, saints, people

If I sleep, I sleep for myself; if I work, I know not for whom.

Proverbs and old sayings Italian about sleep, work

When you sleep in a house your thoughts are as high as the ceiling, when you sleep outside they are as high as the stars.

Proverbs and old sayings about sleep, celebrity, stars, home, house

Success and rest don't sleep together.

Proverbs and old sayings Russian about sleep

Six hours' sleep for a man, seven for a woman and eight for a fool.

Proverbs and old sayings English about sleep, woman, man

The day without work, the night without sleep.

Proverbs and old sayings Albanian about sleep, night, work, day

The child that will not allow his parents to sleep through the night must be prepared to stay awake himself.

Proverbs and old sayings Nigerian about parents, sleep, night, children

Let me eat, let me sit, when it gets dark let me sleep.

Proverbs and old sayings Armenian about dark, sleep

Hunger never knows the taste, sleep never knows the comfort

Proverbs and old sayings British about hunger, sleep, old, olderness

Those who sleep with dogs will rise with fleas

Proverbs and old sayings Italian about sleep, old, olderness

Just because you are poor does not mean you have to sleep with your mother.

Proverbs and old sayings about sleep, mother

News does not sleep on the way.

Proverbs and old sayings West African about sleep

The eye is not harmed by sleep.

Proverbs and old sayings West African about sleep

The leopard does not sleep on a dry branch.

Proverbs and old sayings West African about sleep

A man with too much ambition cannot sleep in peace.

Proverbs and old sayings West African about ambition, peace, sleep, man

When a mother has twins she must sleep on her back.

Proverbs and old sayings West African about sleep, mother

The chicken that digs for food will not sleep hungry.

Proverbs and old sayings West African about food, sleep

A woman who wants a child doesn't sleep in her clothes.

Proverbs and old sayings West African about clothes, sleep, children, woman