I’ve often heard it said, as the common proverb goes, that a fool can teach a wise man well.
FRANCOIS RABELAISA crier of green sauce.
More Francois Rabelais Quotes
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I’d rather write about laughing than crying, For laughter makes men human, and courageous.
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How can I govern others, who can’t even govern myself?
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Debts and lies are generally mixed together.
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Appetite comes with eating…..but thirst goes away with drinking.
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Misery is the company of lawsuits.
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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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The 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.
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I am going to seek a great perhaps.
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If you understand why a monkey in a family is always mocked and harassed, you understand why monks are rejected by all–both old and young.
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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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The scent of wine, oh how much more agreeable, laughing, praying, celestial and delicious it is than that of oil!
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A little rain beats down a big wind. Long drinking bouts break open the tunder.
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Nature abhors a vacuum.
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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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To good and true love, fear is forever affixed.
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