Such is the nature and make-up of the French that they are only good at the start. Then they are worse than devils, but, given time, they’re less than women.
FRANCOIS RABELAISFor God, nothing is impossible. And, if he wanted, in the future women would give birth from their ears.
More Francois Rabelais Quotes
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Of a young hermit, an old devil.
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One should never pursue the hazards of fortune to their very ends andit behooves all adventurers to treat their good luck with reverence, neither bothering nor upsetting it.
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I place no hope in my strength, nor in my works: but all my confidence is in God my protector, who never abandons those who have put all their hope and thought in him.
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One falls to the ground in trying to sit on two stools.
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I’d rather write about laughing than crying, For laughter makes men human, and courageous.
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I drink for the thirst to come.
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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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The belly has no ears nor is it to be filled with fair words.
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I drink no more than a sponge.
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An old monkey never makes a pretty face.
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Tell the truth and shame the devil.
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I won’t undertake war until I have tried all the arts and means of peace.
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Indeed, said the monk, a mass, a matins, and vespers well rung are half-said.
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A war undertaken without sufficient monies has but a wisp of force. Coins are the very sinews of battles.
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To laugh is proper to man.
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