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He who eats until he is ill must fast until he is well.

Proverbs and old sayings English about fasting

One does not became fat because he broke a fast.

Proverbs and old sayings Ethiopian about fasting

Nothing dries so fast as tears.

Proverbs and old sayings French about tears, fasting, nothing

Where the wasp has passed the fly sticks fast.

Proverbs and old sayings French about fasting

To go as fast as a friar that is invited to dinner.

Proverbs and old sayings French about fasting

What ripens fast does not last.

Proverbs and old sayings German about fasting

The fast faggot is not easily broken.

Proverbs and old sayings German about fasting

Art holds fast when all else is lost.

Proverbs and old sayings German about art, magic, fasting

What blossoms beautifully, withers fast.

Proverbs and old sayings German about fasting

He who grasps at all, holds nothing fast.

Proverbs and old sayings German about fasting, nothing

As fast as laws are devised, their evasion is contrived.

Proverbs and old sayings German about fasting

When do we have a day of fast? When there is no bread and ham in the larder.

Proverbs and old sayings Gypsy about gypsies, fasting, day

He that eats till he is sick must fast till he is well.

Proverbs and old sayings about fasting

A person can never run so fast as to run away from his backside.

Proverbs and old sayings Igbo about fasting, people

Blaw the wind ne'er so fast, it will lower at last.

Proverbs and old sayings Amerindian about fasting

Winter comes fast on the lazy.

Proverbs and old sayings Irish about fasting

A fast is better than a bad meal.

Proverbs and old sayings Irish about fasting, bad luck, bad

Ill news travels fast.

Proverbs and old sayings Italian about fasting

A cur's tail grows fast.

Proverbs and old sayings Italian about fasting

He who grasps too much holds nothing fast.

Proverbs and old sayings Italian about fasting, nothing