If in your soil it takes, to heaven A thousand thousand thanks be given; And say with France, it goodly goes, Where the Pantagruelion grows.
FRANCOIS RABELAISIf in your soil it takes, to heaven A thousand thousand thanks be given; And say with France, it goodly goes, Where the Pantagruelion grows.
More Francois Rabelais Quotes
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I’d rather write about laughing than crying, For laughter makes men human, and courageous.
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Appetite comes with eating.
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Pantagruel 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.
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We will take the good-will for the deed.
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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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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.
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It is my feeling that Time ripens all things; with Time all things are revealed; Time is the father of truth.
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If the skies fall, one may hope to catch larks.
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A certain jollity of mind, pickled in the scorn of fortune.
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Bring down the curtain, the farce is over.
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The scent of wine, oh how much more agreeable, laughing, praying, celestial and delicious it is than that of oil!
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The deed will be accomplished with the least amount of bloodshed possible, and, if possible, we’ll save all the souls and send them happily off to their abode.
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A crier of green sauce.
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Not everyone is a debtor who wishes to be; not everyone who wishes makes creditors.
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I never sleep comfortably except when I am at sermon or when I pray to God.
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I am going to seek a great purpose, draw the curtain, the farce is played.
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When undertaking marriage, everyone must be the judge of his own thoughts, and take counsel from himself.
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The farce is finished. I go to seek a vast perhaps.
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Frugality is for the vulgar.
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Half the world does not know how the other half lives.
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Against fortune the carter cracks his whip in vain.
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The Devil was sick – the Devil a monk would be, The Devil was well the devil a monk was he.
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Strike the iron whilst it is hot.
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You have no obligation under the sun other than to discover your real needs, to fulfill them, and to rejoice in doing so.
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I never sleep in comfort save when I am hearing a sermon or praying to God.
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The most Christian France is the sole wet-nurse to the Roman court.
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