“I’d rather write about laughing than crying, For laughter makes men human, and courageous.”

Because just as arms have no force outside if there is no counsel within a house, study is vain and counsel useless that is not put to virtuous effect when the time calls.

The dress does not make the monk.

Nature abhors a vacuum.

I urge you to spend your youth profitably in study and virtue…. In brief, let me see in you an abyss of knowledge.

Hungry bellies have no ears.

But where are the snows of last year? That was the greatest concern of Villon, the Parisian poet.

When I drink, I think; and when I think, I drink.

You have no obligation under the sun other than to discover your real needs, to fulfill them, and to rejoice in doing so.

The appetite grows with eating.

I’ve often heard it said, as the common proverb goes, that a fool can teach a wise man well.

There are more old drunkards than old physicians.

No noble man ever hated good wine.

The Devil was sick – the Devil a monk would be, The Devil was well the devil a monk was he.

Everything comes in time to those who can wait.

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.

The most Christian France is the sole wet-nurse to the Roman court.

If you cry when you’re in love, it sure ain’t no disgrace.

Those who cry the loudest are not always the ones who are hurt the most.

Don’t cry for a man who’s left you, the next one may fall for your smile.

Sometimes I wish I was a beautiful machine so I could resist your kiss and not cry when you’re mean.

If somebody hurts you, it’s okay to cry a river, just remember to build a bridge and get over it.

If you don’t fight for what you want, don’t cry for what you lost

Sometimes I feel like crying, tears of happiness, tears of joy, to see the distance we’ve come and the progress we’ve made.

Do what you will. Even if you tear yourself apart, most people will continue doing the same things.