Bring down the curtain, the farce is over.
FRANCOIS RABELAISBring down the curtain, the farce is over.
More Francois Rabelais Quotes
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I am going to seek a great perhaps.
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It is said, proverbially, that happy is the doctor who is called in when the disease is on its way out.
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How do you know antiquity was foolish? How do you know the present is wise? Who made it foolish? Who made it wise?
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A little rain beats down a big wind. Long drinking bouts break open the tunder.
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I drink for the thirst to come.
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Friends, you will notice that in this world there are many more ballocks than men. Remember this.
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Fate leads the willing, and th’ unwilling draws.
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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.
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I won’t undertake war until I have tried all the arts and means of peace.
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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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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 appetite grows with eating.
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Plain as a nose in a man’s face.
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If you wish to avoid seeing a fool, you must first break your mirror
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The right moment wears a full head of hair: when it has been missed, you can’t get it back; it’s bald in the back of the head and never turns around.
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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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There are more old drunkards than old physicians.
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If the skies fall, one may hope to catch larks.
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I drink no more than a sponge.
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The Lord forbid that I should be out of debt, as if indeed I could not be trusted.
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Wisdom entereth not into a malicious mind.
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For God, nothing is impossible. And, if he wanted, in the future women would give birth from their ears.
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How can I govern others, who can’t even govern myself?
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We will take the good-will for the deed.
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There is no truer cause of unhappiness amongst men than, where naturally expecting charity and benevolence, they receive harm and vexation.
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Debts and lies are generally mixed together.
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