When I drink, I think; and when I think, I drink.
FRANCOIS RABELAISWhen I drink, I think; and when I think, I drink.
FRANCOIS RABELAISDebts and lies are generally mixed together.
FRANCOIS RABELAISPantagruel was telling me that he believed the queen had given the symbolic word used among her subjects to denote sovereign good cheer, when she said to her tabachins, A panacea.
FRANCOIS RABELAISHe who has not an adventure has not horse or mule, so says Solomon.–Who is too adventurous, said Echephron,–loses horse and mule.
FRANCOIS RABELAISIf the head is lost, all that perishes is the individual; if the balls are lost, all of human nature perishes.
FRANCOIS RABELAISNo noble man ever hated good wine.
FRANCOIS RABELAISIt is better to write of laughter than of tears, for laughter is the property of man.
FRANCOIS RABELAISOne falls to the ground in trying to sit on two stools.
FRANCOIS RABELAISPlain as a nose in a man’s face.
FRANCOIS RABELAISNo clock is more regular than the belly.
FRANCOIS RABELAISWisdom entereth not into a malicious mind.
FRANCOIS RABELAISScience sans conscience. Knowledge without conscience is but the ruin of the soul.
FRANCOIS RABELAISWe will take the good-will for the deed.
FRANCOIS RABELAISIn this mortal life, nothing is blessed throughout.
FRANCOIS RABELAISFor God, nothing is impossible. And, if he wanted, in the future women would give birth from their ears.
FRANCOIS RABELAISBut where are the snows of last year? That was the greatest concern of Villon, the Parisian poet.
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