The right moment wears a full head of hair: when it has been missed, you can’t get it back; it’s bald in the back of the head and never turns around.
FRANCOIS RABELAISNature 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.
More Francois Rabelais Quotes
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A little rain beats down a big wind. Long drinking bouts break open the tunder.
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I never sleep in comfort save when I am hearing a sermon or praying to God.
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I drink for the thirst to come.
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I urge you to spend your youth profitably in study and virtue…. In brief, let me see in you an abyss of knowledge.
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You have no obligation under the sun other than to discover your real needs, to fulfill them, and to rejoice in doing so.
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Row on whatever happens.
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So much is a man worth as he esteems himself.
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Frugality is for the vulgar.
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When undertaking marriage, everyone must be the judge of his own thoughts, and take counsel from himself.
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Pantagruel was telling me that he believed the queen had given the symbolic word used among her subjects to denote sovereign good cheer, when she said to her tabachins, A panacea.
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Don’t limp in front of the lame.
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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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It is said, proverbially, that happy is the doctor who is called in when the disease is on its way out.
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Strike the iron whilst it is hot.
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Plain as a nose in a man’s face.
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