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.
FRANCOIS RABELAISThe 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.
More Francois Rabelais Quotes
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Tell the truth and shame the devil.
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Hungry bellies have no ears.
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The Devil was sick – the Devil a monk would be, The Devil was well the devil a monk was he.
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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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Friends, you will notice that in this world there are many more ballocks than men. Remember this.
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If the head is lost, all that perishes is the individual; if the balls are lost, all of human nature perishes.
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Such is the nature and make-up of the French that they are only good at the start. Then they are worse than devils, but, given time, they’re less than women.
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Appetite comes with eating.
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No clock is more regular than the belly.
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If the skies fall, one may hope to catch larks.
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One falls to the ground in trying to sit on two stools.
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I won’t undertake war until I have tried all the arts and means of peace.
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Debts and lies are generally mixed together.
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So much is a man worth as he esteems himself.
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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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