The surface of the water is beautiful, but it is no good to sleep on.
—African Proverb
If bad luck is asleep you must not awaken it.
—German Proverb
When misfortune sleeps, let no one wake her.
—Spanish Proverb
It is only in your coffin that you sleep really well.
—Indian Proverb
Fire and gunpowder do not sleep together.
—African 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
Success and rest don’t sleep together.
—Russian Proverb
Sins hide not in your sleep but in your dreams.
—Yiddish Proverb
Evil knows where evil sleeps.
—African Proverb
There is no woman who sleeps so deeply that the sound of a guitar won’t bring her to the window.
—Spanish Proverb
He who sleeps in a silver bed has golden dreams.
—German Proverb
Who is known as an early riser may sleep longer.
—French Proverb
The potter sleeps soundly, for no one would steal clay.
—Indian Proverb
Never tickle the nose of a sleeping bear.
—German Proverb
The more you know the less will you sleep.
—Russian Proverb
Poverty is even worse if you have to sleep on the edge of a crowded bed.
—Spanish Proverb
Curse your wife at evening, sleep alone at night.
—Chinese Proverb
Sleep faster—we need the pillows.
—Yiddish Proverb
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
A man with too much ambition cannot sleep in peace.
—African Proverb
The guard’s sleep is the lamplight of the thief.
—Persian Proverb
In the hotel of decisions the guests sleep well.
—Persian 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
For some of us happiness comes while we sleep.
—French Proverb
Poor men sleep the best.
—Japanese Proverb
A good laugh and a long sleep are the best cures in the doctor’s book.
—Irish Proverb
If you are threatened by a man, sleep at night, if it is by a woman then stay awake.
—African Proverb
Those who sleep with dogs will rise with fleas.
—Italian Proverb
Sleep is the cousin of death.
—African Proverb
Eat in Poland, drink in Hungary, sleep in Germany, and make love in Italy.
—Polish Proverb