Gestures, in love, are incomparably more attractive, effective and valuable than words.
FRANCOIS RABELAISTo laugh is proper to man.
More Francois Rabelais Quotes
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Row on whatever happens.
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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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If the skies fall, one may hope to catch larks.
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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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No noble man ever hated good wine.
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Of a young hermit, an old devil.
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I drink eternally. For me it is an eternity of drinking, and a drinking up of eternity.
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Strike the iron whilst it is hot.
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Plain as a nose in a man’s face.
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A man of good sense always believes what he is told, and what he finds written down.
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Indeed, said the monk, a mass, a matins, and vespers well rung are half-said.
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Appetite comes with eating.
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It is my feeling that Time ripens all things; with Time all things are revealed; Time is the father of truth.
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Because just as arms have no force outside if there is no counsel within a house, study is vain and counsel useless that is not put to virtuous effect when the time calls.
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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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