26 African Proverbs about Sleep

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1. When a mother has twins she must sleep on her back.
2. The chicken that digs for food will not sleep hungry.
3. The hyena sleeps with the sheep.
4. The leopard does not sleep on a dry branch.
5. If you are threatened by a man, sleep at night, if it is by a woman then stay awake.
6. News does not sleep on the way.
7. A man with too much ambition cannot sleep in peace.
8. If you think you are too small to make a difference, try sleeping in a closed room with a mosquito.
9. The eye is not harmed by sleep.
10. A grasshopper that sleeps about will be soon awake in a lizard's mouth.
11. A newly committed crime awakens sleeping ones.
12. A rat with many offspring always sleeps with his door open.
13. A sleeping head needs more than its neck to support it.
14. A spider's cobweb isn't only its sleeping spring but also its food trap.
15. A woman who wants a child doesn't sleep in her clothes.
16. He who came to work never sleeps.
17. He who wakes up and finds himself a success hasn't been asleep.
18. Hooting all right and sleeping all day, doesn't make an owl wise.
19. If you think you're too small to be noticed go and sleep in a room which is full of mosquitoes.
20. It is a man with a harp who should decide how he is going to sleep.
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