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 RABELAISKeep running after a dog and he will never bite you.
More Francois Rabelais Quotes
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The right moment wears a full head of hair: when it has been missed, you can’t get it back; it’s bald in the back of the head and never turns around.
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It is better to write of laughter than of tears, for laughter is the property of man.
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The most Christian France is the sole wet-nurse to the Roman court.
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No clock is more regular than the belly.
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I drink for the thirst to come.
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But where are the snows of last year? That was the greatest concern of Villon, the Parisian poet.
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Row on whatever happens.
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Early rising is no pleasure; early drinking’s just the measure.
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All’s well in the end, if you’ve only the patience to wait.
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You have no obligation under the sun other than to discover your real needs, to fulfill them, and to rejoice in doing so.
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Strike the iron whilst it is hot.
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I urge you to spend your youth profitably in study and virtue…. In brief, let me see in you an abyss of knowledge.
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Debts and lies are generally mixed together.
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I am going to seek a great perhaps.
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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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