Oh thrice and four times happy, those who plant cabbages.
FRANCOIS RABELAISThe most Christian France is the sole wet-nurse to the Roman court.
More Francois Rabelais Quotes
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Indeed, said the monk, a mass, a matins, and vespers well rung are half-said.
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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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I urge you to spend your youth profitably in study and virtue…. In brief, let me see in you an abyss of knowledge.
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In this mortal life, nothing is blessed throughout.
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An old monkey never makes a pretty face.
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One falls to the ground in trying to sit on two stools.
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No clock is more regular than the belly.
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Giving words is an act of lovers.
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I am going to seek a grand perhaps.
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If the skies fall, one may hope to catch larks.
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To laugh is proper to man.
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I know of a charm by way of a prayer that will preserve a man from the violence of guns and all manner of fire-weapons and engines but it will do me no good because I do not believe it
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It is better to write of laughter than of tears, for laughter is the property of man.
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Plain as a nose in a man’s face.
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The scent of wine, oh how much more agreeable, laughing, praying, celestial and delicious it is than that of oil!
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