Francois Rabelais on abandonment
Francois Rabelais125 quotes“There is nothing holy nor sacred to those who have abandoned God and reason in order to follow their perverse desires.”
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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.
Francois RabelaisFrancois Rabelais Wisdom entereth not into a malicious mind.
Francois RabelaisFrancois Rabelais Bring down the curtain, the farce is over.
Francois RabelaisFrancois Rabelais We will take the good-will for the deed.
Francois RabelaisFrancois Rabelais 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 RabelaisFrancois Rabelais I’d rather write about laughing than crying, For laughter makes men human, and courageous.
Francois RabelaisFrancois Rabelais The remedy for thirst? It is the opposite of the one for a dog bite: run always after a dog, he’ll never bite you; drink always before thirst, and it will never overtake you.
Francois RabelaisFrancois Rabelais I am going to seek a great perhaps.
Francois RabelaisFrancois Rabelais One falls to the ground in trying to sit on two stools.
Francois RabelaisFrancois Rabelais It is said, proverbially, that happy is the doctor who is called in when the disease is on its way out.
Francois RabelaisFrancois Rabelais Science without conscience is the soul’s perdition.
Francois RabelaisFrancois Rabelais I won’t undertake war until I have tried all the arts and means of peace.
Francois RabelaisFrancois Rabelais The belly has no ears nor is it to be filled with fair words.
Francois RabelaisFrancois Rabelais Friends, you will notice that in this world there are many more ballocks than men. Remember this.
Francois RabelaisFrancois Rabelais It’s a shame to be called “educated” those who do not study the ancient Greek writers.
Francois RabelaisFrancois Rabelais Indeed, said the monk, a mass, a matins, and vespers well rung are half-said.
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The company of the saints helps us to recognize that God never abandons us, so that we can live and bear witness to hope on this earth.
Pope FrancisPope Francis We must abandon completely the notion of blaming the past for any kind of situation we’re in and reverse our thinking and see that the past always flows back form the present.
Alan WattsAlan Watts I would prefer to abandon the terminology of the past.
Vladimir PutinVladimir Putin Be ready to revise any system, scrap any method, abandon any theory, if the success of the job requires it.
Henry FordHenry Ford Nothing is worth more than laughter. It is strength to laugh and to abandon oneself, to be light. Tragedy is the most ridiculous thing.
Frida KahloFrida Kahlo Nothing is worth more than laughter. It is strength to laugh and to abandon oneself, to be light. Tragedy is the most ridiculous thing.
Frida KahloFrida Kahlo We are trying to urge North Korea to abandon their nuclear development program.
Shinzo AbeShinzo Abe Every day I wake up determined to deliver a better life for the people all across America that have been ignored, neglected and abandoned.
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