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Whoever stays awake longest must blow out the candle.

Proverbs and old sayings Italian

An idiot is eloquent when he stays silent.

Proverbs and old sayings Japanese

Advice is a stranger; if he's welcome he stays for the night; if not, he leaves the same day.

Proverbs and old sayings Malagasy about advice, night, day

Hell must be in bad condition when even the devil stays out.

Proverbs and old sayings Mexican about hell, devil, bad luck, bad

When the earth is hot, the worm stays in the ground.

Proverbs and old sayings about earth, americans

When water stays at one place, it rots.

Proverbs and old sayings Persian about water

The needle makes clothes but stays naked.

Proverbs and old sayings Persian about clothes

Not everyone who sings a lullaby stays awake.

Proverbs and old sayings Persian

A guest sticks a nail in the wall even if he stays but one night.

Proverbs and old sayings Polish about night

A guest hammers a nail in the wall even if he stays only one night.

Proverbs and old sayings Polish about night

Who stays quiet agrees.

Proverbs and old sayings Portuguese about quiet

The hen that stays at home picks up the crumbs.

Proverbs and old sayings Portuguese about home

The chicken that stays in the farmyard, will peck the crumbs.

Proverbs and old sayings Portuguese

God stays long, but strikes at last.

Proverbs and old sayings Aromanian about god

When money talks, then truth stays silent.

Proverbs and old sayings Russian about truth, money

Who stays vigilant, will win.

Proverbs and old sayings Sicilian about prudence

Cooked pumpkin stays hot for a long time.

Proverbs and old sayings Sicilian about time

A useless watch dog barks but stays far away.

Proverbs and old sayings Sicilian

Who stays at the master and doesn't learn, is either a jackass or pretends to be one.

Proverbs and old sayings Sicilian

A paddle here, a paddle there -- the canoe stays still.

Proverbs and old sayings