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An arch never sleeps.

Proverbs and old sayings Amerindian

The potter sleeps soundly, for no one would steal clay.

Proverbs and old sayings Amerindian

A woman like a pig, a sleepy-headed woman.

Proverbs and old sayings Irish about woman

He who sleeps catches no fish.

Proverbs and old sayings Italian about fishing

The sick man sleeps when the debtor cannot.

Proverbs and old sayings Italian about man

He who sleeps well does not feel the fleas.

Proverbs and old sayings Italian

The lion and the lamb shall lie down together, but the lamb won't get much sleep.

Proverbs and old sayings Italian about sleep, lie

If the skin of your belly is tight, the skin of your eyelids can sleep.

Proverbs and old sayings Japanese about sleep

Only a medicine man gets rich by sleeping.

Proverbs and old sayings about medicine, wealth, man

An idle person may have just three tasks: sleeping, eating and quarrelling.

Proverbs and old sayings about people

Reward not a sleeping pilot.

Proverbs and old sayings Latin about reward

A dog as he sleeps barks as if on the track of the hare.

Proverbs and old sayings Latin

Great discomfort arises from too hearty a supper: if you would enjoy a tranquil sleep let your supper be a light one.

Proverbs and old sayings Latin about sleep, light, contentment

Don't kick a sleeping dog.

Proverbs and old sayings

If you would grow poor without knowing it, put your helpers to work and go to sleep

Proverbs and old sayings about sleep, work, contentment

Nobody wants to buy a sleeping horse.

Proverbs and old sayings Mexican about commerce

Shrimp that sleeps is carried by the tide.

Proverbs and old sayings Mexican

A goat owned by two people sleeps outside.

Proverbs and old sayings Nigerian about people

The hunter does not rub himself in oil and lie by the fire to sleep.

Proverbs and old sayings Nigerian about hunters, sleep, lie, fire, fire brigade

Deceit sleeps with greed.

Proverbs and old sayings about lie, greed