Time, which wears down and diminishes all things, augments and increases good deeds, because a good turn liberally offered to a reasonable man grows continually through noble thought and memory.
FRANCOIS RABELAISThe 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.
More Francois Rabelais Quotes
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Appetite comes with eating.
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Keep running after a dog and he will never bite you.
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I’d rather write about laughing than crying, For laughter makes men human, and courageous.
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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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In this mortal life, nothing is blessed throughout.
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The 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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Never did a great man hate good wine.
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I owe much; I have nothing; the rest I leave to the poor.
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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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If you want to avoid seeing an idiot, break the mirror.
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Strike the iron whilst it is hot.
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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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Don’t limp in front of the lame.
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Plain as a nose in a man’s face.
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Everything comes in time to those who can wait.
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