Against fortune the carter cracks his whip in vain.
FRANCOIS RABELAISAn old monkey never makes a pretty face.
More Francois Rabelais Quotes
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Everything comes in time to those who can wait.
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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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How shall I be able to rule over others, that have not full power and command of myself?
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Not everyone is a debtor who wishes to be; not everyone who wishes makes creditors.
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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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If the skies fall, one may hope to catch larks.
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The farce is finished. I go to seek a vast perhaps.
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A child is not a vase to be filled, but a fire to be lit.
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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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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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Row on whatever happens.
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To good and true love, fear is forever affixed.
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Appetite comes with eating.
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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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So much is a man worth as he esteems himself.
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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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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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Death is the vast perhaps.
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He that has patience may compass anything.
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The belly has no ears nor is it to be filled with fair words.
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To laugh is proper to man.
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Never did a great man hate good wine.
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A crier of green sauce.
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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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Debts and lies are generally mixed together.
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If the head is lost, all that perishes is the individual; if the balls are lost, all of human nature perishes.
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