Keep running after a dog and he will never bite you.
FRANCOIS RABELAISAgainst fortune the carter cracks his whip in vain.
More Francois Rabelais Quotes
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Debts and lies are generally mixed together.
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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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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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Indeed, said the monk, a mass, a matins, and vespers well rung are half-said.
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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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Early rising is no pleasure; early drinking’s just the measure.
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Half the world does not know how the other half lives.
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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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It’s a shame to be called “educated” those who do not study the ancient Greek writers.
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A crier of green sauce.
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I drink no more than a sponge.
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An old monkey never makes a pretty face.
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I’d rather write about laughing than crying, For laughter makes men human, and courageous.
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How shall I be able to rule over others, that have not full power and command of myself?
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Ignorance is the mother of all evils.
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