I drink no more than a sponge.
FRANCOIS RABELAISI drink no more than a sponge.
FRANCOIS RABELAISThe appetite grows with eating.
FRANCOIS RABELAISPantagruel 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.
FRANCOIS RABELAISA man of good sense always believes what he is told, and what he finds written down.
FRANCOIS RABELAISOh how unhappy is the prince served by such men who are so easily corrupted.
FRANCOIS RABELAISAll’s well in the end, if you’ve only the patience to wait.
FRANCOIS RABELAISThe most Christian France is the sole wet-nurse to the Roman court.
FRANCOIS RABELAISWar 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.
FRANCOIS RABELAISCan there be any greater dotage in the world than for one to guide and direct his courses by the sound of a bell, and not by his own judgment.
FRANCOIS RABELAISA habit does not a monk make.
FRANCOIS RABELAISThere are more old drunkards than old physicians.
FRANCOIS RABELAISTo laugh is proper to man.
FRANCOIS RABELAISThe dress does not make the monk.
FRANCOIS RABELAISIf 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.
FRANCOIS RABELAISHe who has not an adventure has not horse or mule, so says Solomon.–Who is too adventurous, said Echephron,–loses horse and mule.
FRANCOIS RABELAISDon’t limp in front of the lame.
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