Indeed, said the monk, a mass, a matins, and vespers well rung are half-said.
FRANCOIS RABELAISNo clock is more regular than the belly.
More Francois Rabelais Quotes
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In this mortal life, nothing is blessed throughout.
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The most Christian France is the sole wet-nurse to the Roman court.
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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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It is said, proverbially, that happy is the doctor who is called in when the disease is on its way out.
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If you want to avoid seeing an idiot, break the mirror.
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In their rules there was only one clause: Do what you will.
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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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To good and true love, fear is forever affixed.
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The belly has no ears nor is it to be filled with fair words.
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I know of a charm by way of a prayer that will preserve a man from the violence of guns and all manner of fire-weapons and engines but it will do me no good because I do not believe it
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A little rain beats down a big wind. Long drinking bouts break open the tunder.
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A good intention does not mean honor.
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I won’t undertake war until I have tried all the arts and means of peace.
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We always long for the forbidden things, and desire what is denied us.
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The farce is finished. I go to seek a vast perhaps.
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