From the gut comes the strut, and where hunger reigns, strength abstains.
FRANCOIS RABELAISI am going to seek a great perhaps.
More Francois Rabelais Quotes
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There are more old drunkards than old physicians.
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I drink no more than a sponge.
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A crier of green sauce.
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I won’t undertake war until I have tried all the arts and means of peace.
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So much is a man worth as he esteems himself.
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Can there be any greater dotage in the world than for one to guide and direct his courses by the sound of a bell, and not by his own judgment.
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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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Fate leads the willing, and th’ unwilling draws.
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He who has not an adventure has not horse or mule, so says Solomon.–Who is too adventurous, said Echephron,–loses horse and mule.
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The appetite grows with eating.
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The deed will be accomplished with the least amount of bloodshed possible, and, if possible, we’ll save all the souls and send them happily off to their abode.
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Wisdom entereth not into a malicious mind.
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Everything comes in time to those who can wait.
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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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I build only living stones–men.
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