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It is easy for someone to talk about fasting when he has a full belly.

Proverbs and old sayings Croatian about fasting

Better cross an angry man than a fasting man.

Proverbs and old sayings Danish about fasting, man

Abstinence and fasting cure many a complaint.

Proverbs and old sayings Danish about abstinence, fasting

Italian devotion and German fasting have no meaning.

Proverbs and old sayings Danish about fasting

Long fasting doesn't save bread.

Proverbs and old sayings Dutch about fasting

Long fasting is no bread sparing.

Proverbs and old sayings Dutch about fasting

Who goes fasting to bed will sleep but lightly.

Proverbs and old sayings Dutch about fasting, sleep

It's ill speaking between a full man and a fasting.

Proverbs and old sayings Dutch about fasting, man

He is as welcome as the first day in Lent. (Alluding to fastday. )

Proverbs and old sayings Dutch about day

It's a fine sermon about fasting when the preacher just had lunch.

Proverbs and old sayings Ecuadorian about fasting

Long fasting is no economy of food.

Proverbs and old sayings German about economy, fasting, food

It is easy to preach fasting with a fully belly.

Proverbs and old sayings Italian about fasting

When hunger is appeased we can preach the merits of fasting.

Proverbs and old sayings Latin about fasting, hunger

He whose belly is full believes not him who is fasting.

Proverbs and old sayings Aromanian about fasting

Lang fasting hains nae meat.

Proverbs and old sayings Scottish about fasting

Ye're never pleas'd fu' nor fasting.

Proverbs and old sayings Scottish about fasting

Friday pretexts for not fasting.

Proverbs and old sayings Spanish about fasting

A day of fasting is the eve of a feast.

Proverbs and old sayings Spanish about fasting, feast, day

If the doctor is fasting it is bad for the priest.

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

From a praying young man, and a fasting old man, God preserve my cloak.

Proverbs and old sayings Spanish about fasting, god, man, old, olderness