We will take the good-will for the deed.
FRANCOIS RABELAISWe will take the good-will for the deed.
FRANCOIS RABELAISFor God, nothing is impossible. And, if he wanted, in the future women would give birth from their ears.
FRANCOIS RABELAISWe always long for the forbidden things, and desire what is denied us.
FRANCOIS RABELAISAn old monkey never makes a pretty face.
FRANCOIS RABELAISDon’t limp in front of the lame.
FRANCOIS RABELAISStrike the iron whilst it is hot.
FRANCOIS RABELAISA crier of green sauce.
FRANCOIS RABELAISI have known many who could not when they would, for they had not done it when they could.
FRANCOIS RABELAISWar 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.
FRANCOIS RABELAISA certain jollity of mind, pickled in the scorn of fortune.
FRANCOIS RABELAISI 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.
FRANCOIS RABELAISScience without conscience is the soul’s perdition.
FRANCOIS RABELAISI drink eternally. For me it is an eternity of drinking, and a drinking up of eternity.
FRANCOIS RABELAISAll’s well in the end, if you’ve only the patience to wait.
FRANCOIS RABELAISNever did a great man hate good wine.
FRANCOIS RABELAISHalf the world does not know how the other half lives.
FRANCOIS RABELAIS