We will take the good-will for the deed.
FRANCOIS RABELAISStrike the iron whilst it is hot.
More Francois Rabelais Quotes
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No clock is more regular than the belly.
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Oh thrice and four times happy, those who plant cabbages.
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I have known many who could not when they would, for they had not done it when they could.
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A little rain beats down a big wind. Long drinking bouts break open the tunder.
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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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Indeed, said the monk, a mass, a matins, and vespers well rung are half-said.
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The farce is finished. I go to seek a vast perhaps.
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A certain jollity of mind, pickled in the scorn of fortune.
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Everything comes in time to those who can wait.
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I won’t undertake war until I have tried all the arts and means of peace.
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Time, which wears down and diminishes all things, augments and increases good deeds, because a good turn liberally offered to a reasonable man grows continually through noble thought and memory.
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Early rising is no pleasure; early drinking’s just the measure.
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A child is not a vase to be filled, but a fire to be lit.
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I’d gladly do without a valet. I’m never so well treated as when I’m without a valet.
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Fate leads the willing, and th’ unwilling draws.
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