When I drink, I think; and when I think, I drink.
FRANCOIS RABELAISIndeed, said the monk, a mass, a matins, and vespers well rung are half-said.
More Francois Rabelais Quotes
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Thought I to myself, we shall never come off scot-free.
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An old monkey never makes a pretty face.
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I 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.
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For God, nothing is impossible. And, if he wanted, in the future women would give birth from their ears.
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If you wish to be good “Pantagruelists” (which is to say, live in peace, joy, health, and always dining well), never put too much faith in people who look out through a hole.
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Gestures, in love, are incomparably more attractive, effective and valuable than words.
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There are more old drunkards than old physicians.
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I have known many who could not when they would, for they had not done it when they could.
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In their rules there was only one clause: Do what you will.
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But where are the snows of last year? That was the greatest concern of Villon, the Parisian poet.
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Science sans conscience. Knowledge without conscience is but the ruin of the soul.
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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 won’t undertake war until I have tried all the arts and means of peace.
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Keep running after a dog and he will never bite you.
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I never sleep comfortably except when I am at sermon or when I pray to God.
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