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.
FRANCOIS RABELAISEverything comes in time to those who can wait.
More Francois Rabelais Quotes
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Don’t limp in front of the lame.
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Plain as a nose in a man’s face.
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I am going to seek a great perhaps.
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A crier of green sauce.
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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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Strike the iron whilst it is hot.
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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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For God, nothing is impossible. And, if he wanted, in the future women would give birth from their ears.
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The dress does not make the monk.
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Machination is worth more than force.
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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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Bring down the curtain, the farce is over.
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Pantagruelism is a certain gaitey of the spirit consisting in a disdain for the hazards of fortune.
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If you wish to avoid seeing a fool, you must first break your mirror
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When undertaking marriage, everyone must be the judge of his own thoughts, and take counsel from himself.
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