Small children won’t let you sleep, bigger children won’t let you live.
—Yiddish Proverb
The thief has a chicken’s heart—he sleeps in fear.
—Russian Proverb
For some of us happiness comes while we sleep.
—French Proverb
It is only in your coffin that you sleep really well.
—Indian Proverb
A good laugh and a long sleep are the best cures in the doctor’s book.
—Irish Proverb
If you want to sleep well, buy the bed of a bankrupt.
—Spanish Proverb
The potter sleeps soundly, for no one would steal clay.
—Indian Proverb
If bad luck is asleep you must not awaken it.
—German Proverb
Rent and taxes never sleep.
—German Proverb
A quiet conscience sleeps in thunder.
—Thomas Fuller (1608–61) English Cleric, Historian
The worst things in life are: To be in bed and sleep not, To want for one who comes not, To try to please and please not.
—Arabic Proverb
Poverty is even worse if you have to sleep on the edge of a crowded bed.
—Spanish Proverb
In the morning be first up, and in the evening last to go to bed, for they that sleep catch no fish.
—English Proverb
Sins hide not in your sleep but in your dreams.
—Yiddish Proverb
If you’re going to do something tonight that you’ll be sorry for in the morning, sleep late.
—Henny Youngman (1906–98) Anglo-American Comedian, Violinist
There is no woman who sleeps so deeply that the sound of a guitar won’t bring her to the window.
—Spanish Proverb
Marriage is the only war in which you sleep with the enemy.
—Mexican Proverb
Whoever is ashamed to sleep with his wife will never have children.
—Egyptian Proverb
Sleep faster—we need the pillows.
—Yiddish Proverb
Eat in Poland, drink in Hungary, sleep in Germany, and make love in Italy.
—Polish Proverb
Those who sleep with dogs will rise with fleas.
—Italian Proverb
A man with too much ambition cannot sleep in peace.
—African Proverb
As the master sleeps, the servant dreams.
—Swedish Proverb
The surface of the water is beautiful, but it is no good to sleep on.
—African Proverb
If you are threatened by a man, sleep at night, if it is by a woman then stay awake.
—African Proverb
The guard’s sleep is the lamplight of the thief.
—Persian Proverb
Never tickle the nose of a sleeping bear.
—German Proverb
The more you know the less will you sleep.
—Russian Proverb
When misfortune sleeps, let no one wake her.
—Spanish Proverb
He who sleeps in a silver bed has golden dreams.
—German Proverb
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