To laugh is proper to man.
FRANCOIS RABELAISIf you understand why a monkey in a family is always mocked and harassed, you understand why monks are rejected by all–both old and young.
More Francois Rabelais Quotes
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A crier of green sauce.
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If you want to avoid seeing an idiot, break the mirror.
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I am going to seek a great purpose, draw the curtain, the farce is played.
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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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Can there be any greater dotage in the world than for one to guide and direct his courses by the sound of a bell, and not by his own judgment.
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Keep running after a dog and he will never bite you.
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Ignorance is the mother of all evils.
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I never sleep in comfort save when I am hearing a sermon or praying to God.
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Plain as a nose in a man’s face.
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Oh thrice and four times happy, those who plant cabbages.
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In this mortal life, nothing is blessed throughout.
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Thought I to myself, we shall never come off scot-free.
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Frugality is for the vulgar.
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Believe me, ’tis a godlike thing to lend; to owe is a heroic virtue.
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Languages exist by arbitrary institutions and conventions among peoples; words, as the dialecticians tell us, do not signify naturally, but at our pleasure.
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