If in your soil it takes, to heaven A thousand thousand thanks be given; And say with France, it goodly goes, Where the Pantagruelion grows.
FRANCOIS RABELAISFrom the gut comes the strut, and where hunger reigns, strength abstains.
More Francois Rabelais Quotes
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Oh thrice and four times happy, those who plant cabbages.
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I drink no more than a sponge.
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Pantagruel was telling me that he believed the queen had given the symbolic word used among her subjects to denote sovereign good cheer, when she said to her tabachins, A panacea.
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A crier of green sauce.
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From the gut comes the strut, and where hunger reigns, strength abstains.
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It is said, proverbially, that happy is the doctor who is called in when the disease is on its way out.
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Appetite comes with eating…..but thirst goes away with drinking.
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I build only living stones–men.
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He that has patience may compass anything.
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For God, nothing is impossible. And, if he wanted, in the future women would give birth from their ears.
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So much is a man worth as he esteems himself.
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I never sleep in comfort save when I am hearing a sermon or praying to God.
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The appetite grows with eating.
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To good and true love, fear is forever affixed.
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War begun without good provision of money beforehand for going through with it is but as a breathing of strength and blast that will quickly pass away. Coin is the sinews of war.
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