The appetite grows with eating.
FRANCOIS RABELAISFrom the gut comes the strut, and where hunger reigns, strength abstains.
More Francois Rabelais Quotes
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The remedy for thirst? It is the opposite of the one for a dog bite: run always after a dog, he’ll never bite you; drink always before thirst, and it will never overtake you.
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The most Christian France is the sole wet-nurse to the Roman court.
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We will take the good-will for the deed.
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A crier of green sauce.
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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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It is better to write of laughter than of tears, for laughter is the property of man.
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I owe much; I have nothing; the rest I leave to the poor.
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I won’t undertake war until I have tried all the arts and means of peace.
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Half the world does not know how the other half lives.
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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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Believe me, ’tis a godlike thing to lend; to owe is a heroic virtue.
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Everything comes in time to those who can wait.
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War begun without good provision of money beforehand for going through with it is but as a breathing of strength and blast that will quickly pass away. Coin is the sinews of war.
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The belly has no ears nor is it to be filled with fair words.
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Early rising is no pleasure; early drinking’s just the measure.
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