Such is the nature and make-up of the French that they are only good at the start. Then they are worse than devils, but, given time, they’re less than women.
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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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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I am going to seek a great purpose, draw the curtain, the farce is played.
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I drink for the thirst to come.
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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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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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An old monkey never makes a pretty face.
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Wisdom entereth not into a malicious mind.
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Oh thrice and four times happy, those who plant cabbages.
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We always long for the forbidden things, and desire what is denied us.
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Not everyone is a debtor who wishes to be; not everyone who wishes makes creditors.
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In their rules there was only one clause: Do what you will.
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To good and true love, fear is forever affixed.
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No noble man ever hated good wine.
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The belly has no ears nor is it to be filled with fair words.
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Let every one be fully convinced in his own mind.
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