“Pantagruelism is a certain gaitey of the spirit consisting in a disdain for the hazards of fortune.”

The appetite grows with eating.

I’ve often heard it said, as the common proverb goes, that a fool can teach a wise man well.

There are more old drunkards than old physicians.

No noble man ever hated good wine.

The Devil was sick – the Devil a monk would be, The Devil was well the devil a monk was he.

Everything comes in time to those who can wait.

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.

The most Christian France is the sole wet-nurse to the Roman court.

Believe me, ’tis a godlike thing to lend; to owe is a heroic virtue.

Row on whatever happens.

War begun without good provision of money beforehand for going through with it is but as a breathing of strength and blast that will quickly pass away. Coin is the sinews of war.

He who has not an adventure has not horse or mule, so says Solomon.–Who is too adventurous, said Echephron,–loses horse and mule.

A little rain beats down a big wind. Long drinking bouts break open the tunder.

Fate leads the willing, and th’ unwilling draws.

Don’t limp in front of the lame.

I build only living stones–men.

If I had not felt certain that every additional trial was ordered by infinite love and mercy

In grasping at uncertainties we lost that which is certain.

We must also be certain that there is no one true faith or path by which it may spread.

Certain people always say we should go back to nature.I notice they never say we should go forward to nature.

And if it means you’re getting a certain amount of notoriety from a fight, that’s what you’ll do.

I think at this point, there’s a certain bizarre chemistry between Jamie [Hyneman] and I that we can’t ignore a lot of the mechanics of, that we’re quite aware of.

The authors I prefer are all very different and are not limited to certain genres or even certain time periods.

we’re finding that all these things can lead to people believing the world works in a certain way. I