Against fortune the carter cracks his whip in vain.
FRANCOIS RABELAISI am going to seek a great purpose, draw the curtain, the farce is played.
More Francois Rabelais Quotes
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Fate leads the willing, and th’ unwilling draws.
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Bring down the curtain, the farce is over.
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The deed will be accomplished with the least amount of bloodshed possible, and, if possible, we’ll save all the souls and send them happily off to their abode.
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I drink no more than a sponge.
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I place no hope in my strength, nor in my works: but all my confidence is in God my protector, who never abandons those who have put all their hope and thought in him.
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A crier of green sauce.
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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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We will take the good-will for the deed.
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I’ve often heard it said, as the common proverb goes, that a fool can teach a wise man well.
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If you wish to be good “Pantagruelists” (which is to say, live in peace, joy, health, and always dining well), never put too much faith in people who look out through a hole.
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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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A habit does not a monk make.
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Don’t limp in front of the lame.
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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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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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