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.
FRANCOIS RABELAISGestures, in love, are incomparably more attractive, effective and valuable than words.
More Francois Rabelais Quotes
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A man of good sense always believes what he is told, and what he finds written down.
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I have known many who could not when they would, for they had not done it when they could.
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A child is not a vase to be filled, but a fire to be lit.
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Thought I to myself, we shall never come off scot-free.
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Against fortune the carter cracks his whip in vain.
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Appetite comes with eating…..but thirst goes away with drinking.
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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.
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I drink no more than a sponge.
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If you want to avoid seeing an idiot, break the mirror.
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Never did a great man hate good wine.
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Time, which wears down and diminishes all things, augments and increases good deeds, because a good turn liberally offered to a reasonable man grows continually through noble thought and memory.
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I never sleep in comfort save when I am hearing a sermon or praying to God.
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I won’t undertake war until I have tried all the arts and means of peace.
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Hungry bellies have no ears.
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Appetite comes with eating.
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