The scent of wine, oh how much more agreeable, laughing, praying, celestial and delicious it is than that of oil!
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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I build only living stones–men.
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No noble man ever hated good wine.
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An old monkey never makes a pretty face.
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It is better to write of laughter than of tears, for laughter is the property of man.
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Debts and lies are generally mixed together.
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So much is a man worth as he esteems himself.
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Frugality is for the vulgar.
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There are more old drunkards than old physicians.
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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 dress does not make the monk.
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Never did a great man hate good wine.
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Ignorance is the mother of all evils.
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Death is the vast perhaps.
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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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Nature made the day for exercise, work and seeing to one’s business; and … it provides us with a candle, which is to say the bright and joyous light of the sun.
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