Fate leads the willing, and th’ unwilling draws.
FRANCOIS RABELAISThe 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.
More Francois Rabelais Quotes
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Of a young hermit, an old devil.
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The dress does not make the monk.
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When I drink, I think; and when I think, I drink.
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To good and true love, fear is forever affixed.
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Friends, you will notice that in this world there are many more ballocks than men. Remember this.
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If the skies fall, one may hope to catch larks.
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Science without conscience is the soul’s perdition.
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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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I’ve often heard it said, as the common proverb goes, that a fool can teach a wise man well.
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One should never pursue the hazards of fortune to their very ends andit behooves all adventurers to treat their good luck with reverence, neither bothering nor upsetting it.
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I never sleep comfortably except when I am at sermon or when I pray to God.
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Don’t limp in front of the lame.
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The Lord forbid that I should be out of debt, as if indeed I could not be trusted.
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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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From the gut comes the strut, and where hunger reigns, strength abstains.
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