I’ve often heard it said, as the common proverb goes, that a fool can teach a wise man well.
FRANCOIS RABELAISThe 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.
More Francois Rabelais Quotes
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Science sans conscience. Knowledge without conscience is but the ruin of the soul.
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Ignorance is the mother of all evils.
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Don’t limp in front of the lame.
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Nature made the day for exercise, work and seeing to one’s business; and … it provides us with a candle, which is to say the bright and joyous light of the sun.
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How shall I be able to rule over others, that have not full power and command of myself?
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It is my feeling that Time ripens all things; with Time all things are revealed; Time is the father of truth.
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Believe me, ’tis a godlike thing to lend; to owe is a heroic virtue.
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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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There are more old drunkards than old physicians.
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I’d rather write about laughing than crying, For laughter makes men human, and courageous.
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Debts and lies are generally mixed together.
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A little rain beats down a big wind. Long drinking bouts break open the tunder.
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I never sleep in comfort save when I am hearing a sermon or praying to God.
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It is said, proverbially, that happy is the doctor who is called in when the disease is on its way out.
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Keep running after a dog and he will never bite you.
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