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It's a fine sermon about fasting when the preacher just had lunch.
Ecuadoran Proverb
Long fasting is no economy of food.
German Proverb
It is easy for someone to talk about fasting when he has a full belly.
Croatian Proverb
With a full belly it is easy to talk about fasting.
Croatian Proverb
A guest will not know what fasting means.
Croatian Proverb
Long fasting is no bread sparing.
Dutch Proverb
It's ill speaking between a full man and a fasting.
Dutch Proverb
A day of fasting is the eve of a feast.
Spanish Proverb
Abstinence and fasting cure many a complaint.
Danish Proverb
He whose belly is full believes not him who is fasting.
Romanian Proverb
Lang fasting hains nae meat.
Scottish Proverb
Long fasting doesn't save bread.
Dutch Proverb
From a praying young man, and a fasting old man, God preserve my cloak.
Spanish Proverb
Friday pretexts for not fasting.
Spanish Proverb
Italian devotion and German fasting have no meaning.
Danish Proverb
Ye're never pleas'd fu' nor fasting.
Scottish Proverb
Who goes fasting to bed will sleep but lightly.
Dutch Proverb