Such is the nature and make-up of the French that they are only good at the start. Then they are worse than devils, but, given time, they’re less than women.
FRANCOIS RABELAISIf the skies fall, one may hope to catch larks.
More Francois Rabelais Quotes
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If the skies fall, one may hope to catch larks.
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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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Plain as a nose in a man’s face.
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Not everyone is a debtor who wishes to be; not everyone who wishes makes creditors.
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Debts and lies are generally mixed together.
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I’d rather write about laughing than crying, For laughter makes men human, and courageous.
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It is said, proverbially, that happy is the doctor who is called in when the disease is on its way out.
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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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From the gut comes the strut, and where hunger reigns, strength abstains.
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Oh how unhappy is the prince served by such men who are so easily corrupted.
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Keep running after a dog and he will never bite you.
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Of a young hermit, an old devil.
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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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When I drink, I think; and when I think, I drink.
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In their rules there was only one clause: Do what you will.
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