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Hours Proverbs
Happy hours are very short.
Vietnamese Proverb
Moral people sleep well at night, but the immoral seem to get pleasure from the waking hours much more.
Namibian Proverb
If the hours are long enough and the pay is short enough, someone will say it's women's work.
Swahili Proverb
The sun dial counts only the bright hours.
German Proverb
A Kerry shower is of twenty-four hours.
Irish Proverb
With a bottle and a girl one does not count the hours.
Polish Proverb
A great estate is not gotten in a few hours.
French Proverb
Hours once lost cannot be regained.
Yugoslav Proverb
In twenty-four hours, a house can become a patriarch.
Seneca Proverb
Happy people never count hours as they pass.
Chinese Proverb
A spared body only goes twenty-four hours further that another.
Bengali Proverb
Six hours sleep for a man, seven for a woman, and eight for a fool.
Italian Proverb
If the hours are long enough and the pay is short enough, someone will say it's women's work.
Italian Proverb
Hours are Time's shafts, and one comes winged with death.
Scottish Proverb
Saints sleep three hours, merchants sleep five, ordinary people seven and the lazy sleep nine.
Sicilian Proverb
In Russia every day is of thirty hours.
Russian Proverb
All the hours wound you, the last one kills.
Latin Proverb
With a good friend the hours are short.
Basque Proverb
The gods do not deduct from marls allotted span the hours spent fishing.
Babylonian Proverb