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Only thin dogs become wild.

Proverbs and old sayings Malagasy

If you are born fat you will not die thin.

Proverbs and old sayings about death, contentment

Where something is thin, that's where it tears.

Proverbs and old sayings Russian about tears

A fat cow makes a thin calf.

Proverbs and old sayings Sicilian

Who gets married to a thin woman will know bitterness and strife, who marries a plump woman will be contented at the table and sleeping chamber.

Proverbs and old sayings Sicilian about woman

Many children and little food make thin smoerbroeds.

Proverbs and old sayings Swedish about food, children

As the fat man gets thinner, the thin one is already dead.

Proverbs and old sayings Yiddish about man

The sat one doesn't understand the hungry one: for one the soup is too thin, for the other - the pearls are too small.

Proverbs and old sayings Russian

Before it's ready to eat the fig must be mature, dripping, with a bent neck and a thin skin.

Proverbs and old sayings Sicilian