Against fortune the carter cracks his whip in vain.
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Anand Thakur
Against fortune the carter cracks his whip in vain.
FRANCOIS RABELAISBecause 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.
FRANCOIS RABELAISFriends, you will notice that in this world there are many more ballocks than men. Remember this.
FRANCOIS RABELAISIf the skies fall, one may hope to catch larks.
FRANCOIS RABELAISScience sans conscience. Knowledge without conscience is but the ruin of the soul.
FRANCOIS RABELAISThe appetite grows with eating.
FRANCOIS RABELAISDon’t limp in front of the lame.
FRANCOIS RABELAISI am going to seek a great perhaps.
FRANCOIS RABELAISI owe much; I have nothing; the rest I leave to the poor.
FRANCOIS RABELAISIf you wish to avoid seeing a fool, you must first break your mirror
FRANCOIS RABELAISThere are more old drunkards than old physicians.
FRANCOIS RABELAISThe belly has no ears nor is it to be filled with fair words.
FRANCOIS RABELAISSuch 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 RABELAISI 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.
FRANCOIS RABELAISI won’t undertake war until I have tried all the arts and means of peace.
FRANCOIS RABELAISIt is said, proverbially, that happy is the doctor who is called in when the disease is on its way out.
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