A little rain beats down a big wind. Long drinking bouts break open the tunder.
FRANCOIS RABELAIS
Bring down the curtain, the farce is over.
More Francois Rabelais Quotes
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A little rain beats down a big wind. Long drinking bouts break open the tunder.
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Early rising is no pleasure; early drinking’s just the measure.
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I never sleep in comfort save when I am hearing a sermon or praying to God.
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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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Plain as a nose in a man’s face.
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Hungry bellies have no ears.
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Indeed, said the monk, a mass, a matins, and vespers well rung are half-said.
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So much is a man worth as he esteems himself.
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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 belly has no ears nor is it to be filled with fair words.
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I’d gladly do without a valet. I’m never so well treated as when I’m without a valet.
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The appetite grows with eating.
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I know of a charm by way of a prayer that will preserve a man from the violence of guns and all manner of fire-weapons and engines but it will do me no good because I do not believe it
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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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Oh thrice and four times happy, those who plant cabbages.
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I urge you to spend your youth profitably in study and virtue…. In brief, let me see in you an abyss of knowledge.
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