Keep running after a dog and he will never bite you.
FRANCOIS RABELAISAll’s well in the end, if you’ve only the patience to wait.
More Francois Rabelais Quotes
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Hungry bellies have no ears.
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The Devil was sick – the Devil a monk would be, The Devil was well the devil a monk was he.
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I never drink without a thirst, either present or future.
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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.
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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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A crier of green sauce.
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Ignorance is the mother of all evils.
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Science sans conscience. Knowledge without conscience is but the ruin of the soul.
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When I drink, I think; and when I think, I drink.
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I never sleep comfortably except when I am at sermon or when I pray to God.
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Not everyone is a debtor who wishes to be; not everyone who wishes makes creditors.
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I’ve often heard it said, as the common proverb goes, that a fool can teach a wise man well.
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There are more old drunkards than old physicians.
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Oh thrice and four times happy, those who plant cabbages.
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We always long for the forbidden things, and desire what is denied us.
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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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There is nothing holy nor sacred to those who have abandoned God and reason in order to follow their perverse desires.
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He who has not an adventure has not horse or mule, so says Solomon.–Who is too adventurous, said Echephron,–loses horse and mule.
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I drink no more than a sponge.
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No clock is more regular than the belly.
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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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In this mortal life, nothing is blessed throughout.
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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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Plain as a nose in a man’s face.
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Pantagruelism is a certain gaitey of the spirit consisting in a disdain for the hazards of fortune.
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Strike the iron whilst it is hot.
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