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Not until just before dawn do people sleep best; not until people get old do they become wise.

Proverbs and old sayings Indochinese about people, sleep, old, olderness

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

The snake and the crab don't sleep in the same hole.

Proverbs and old sayings Congolese about sleep

Those who sleep with children wake up with shit on their asses.

Proverbs and old sayings about sleep, children

Joy and sorrow sleep in the same bed.

Proverbs and old sayings Czech about joy, sadness, sleep

It is good to sleep in a whole skin.

Proverbs and old sayings Danish about sleep, good, good luck

You may force a man to shut his eyes, but not to sleep.

Proverbs and old sayings Danish about force, police, sleep, eyes, man

A boor remains a boor, though he sleep on silken bolsters.

Proverbs and old sayings Danish about sleep

He who will not prosper in his sleep will not prosper when awake.

Proverbs and old sayings Danish about sleep

I'll sleep on it.

Proverbs and old sayings Dutch about sleep

Who goes fasting to bed will sleep but lightly.

Proverbs and old sayings Dutch about fasting, sleep

Whoever is ashamed to sleep with his wife will never have children.

Proverbs and old sayings Egyptian about sleep, children, wife

Without sleep, no health.

Proverbs and old sayings English about sleep

Cheese and money should always sleep together one night.

Proverbs and old sayings English about sleep, night, money

The person who is tired will find time to sleep. A person with a bad name is already half hanged.

Proverbs and old sayings English about people, name, sleep, time, bad luck, bad

An enemy does not sleep.

Proverbs and old sayings French about sleep, enemies

He who torments others does not sleep well.

Proverbs and old sayings French about sleep

For some of us happiness comes while we sleep.

Proverbs and old sayings French about happiness, sleep

Who is known as an early riser may sleep longer.

Proverbs and old sayings French about sleep

To eat and drink, and sleep together, is marriage, methinks.

Proverbs and old sayings French about marriage, sleep, drinking