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Wake not a sleeping lion.

Proverbs and old sayings Indochinese

To serve a prince is like sleeping with a tiger.

Proverbs and old sayings Indochinese

Even criminals have their uses; they keep sleepyheads awake.

Proverbs and old sayings Indochinese about criminals

He who sleeps cannot catch fish.

Proverbs and old sayings about trap, fishing

Throw no stones at a sleeping dog.

Proverbs and old sayings Danish

The sleeping fox catches no poultry.

Proverbs and old sayings Danish

The water runs while the miller sleeps.

Proverbs and old sayings Danish about water

Much water runs by while the miller sleeps.

Proverbs and old sayings Danish about water

Law helps the waking, luck may come to the sleeping.

Proverbs and old sayings Danish about bad luck, good luck, law

He that doesn't know his bed is too hard sleeps well.

Proverbs and old sayings Danish

Lambs don't runs with the mouth of the sleeping wolf.

Proverbs and old sayings Danish

A boor remains a boor even if sleeping on silken pillows.

Proverbs and old sayings Danish

Wake not a sleeping dog.

Proverbs and old sayings Dutch

Do not wake sleeping dogs.

Proverbs and old sayings Dutch

When the cat sleeps, the mice play.

Proverbs and old sayings Dutch

No sheep runs into the mouth of a sleeping wolf.

Proverbs and old sayings Dutch

When many shepherds tend the sheep, they but so much the longer sleep.

Proverbs and old sayings Dutch about sleep

Precaution said, Good friend, this counsel keep: strip not yourself until you're laid to sleep.

Proverbs and old sayings Dutch about moral, sleep, good, good luck, contentment

He who sleeps forgets his hunger.

Proverbs and old sayings English about hunger

A quiet conscience sleeps in thunder.

Proverbs and old sayings English about quiet, conscience