I drink for the thirst to come.
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.
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I’d rather write about laughing than crying, For laughter makes men human, and courageous.
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I drink eternally. For me it is an eternity of drinking, and a drinking up of eternity.
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Pantagruelism is a certain gaitey of the spirit consisting in a disdain for the hazards of fortune.
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Can 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.
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I won’t undertake war until I have tried all the arts and means of peace.
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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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Hungry bellies have no ears.
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Early rising is no pleasure; early drinking’s just the measure.
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Don’t limp in front of the lame.
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Oh how unhappy is the prince served by such men who are so easily corrupted.
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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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Against fortune the carter cracks his whip in vain.
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Giving words is an act of lovers.
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He who has not an adventure has not horse or mule, so says Solomon.–Who is too adventurous, said Echephron,–loses horse and mule.
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