A little rain beats down a big wind. Long drinking bouts break open the tunder.
FRANCOIS RABELAISIn this mortal life, nothing is blessed throughout.
More Francois Rabelais Quotes
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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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The scent of wine, oh how much more agreeable, laughing, praying, celestial and delicious it is than that of oil!
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Of a young hermit, an old devil.
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Tell the truth and shame the devil.
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Keep running after a dog and he will never bite you.
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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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Pantagruel was telling me that he believed the queen had given the symbolic word used among her subjects to denote sovereign good cheer, when she said to her tabachins, A panacea.
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Against fortune the carter cracks his whip in vain.
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Ignorance is the mother of all evils.
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Appetite comes with eating.
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Plain as a nose in a man’s face.
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So much is a man worth as he esteems himself.
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Fate leads the willing, and th’ unwilling draws.
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I won’t undertake war until I have tried all the arts and means of peace.
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It’s a shame to be called “educated” those who do not study the ancient Greek writers.
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