Plain as a nose in a man’s face.
FRANCOIS RABELAISSuch 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.
More Francois Rabelais Quotes
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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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To laugh is proper to man.
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I drink for the thirst to come.
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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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If you wish to avoid seeing a fool, you must first break your mirror
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I drink eternally. For me it is an eternity of drinking, and a drinking up of eternity.
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Ignorance is the mother of all evils.
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A war undertaken without sufficient monies has but a wisp of force. Coins are the very sinews of battles.
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Let every one be fully convinced in his own mind.
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No noble man ever hated good wine.
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A child is not a vase to be filled, but a fire to be lit.
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Oh thrice and four times happy, those who plant cabbages.
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Bring down the curtain, the farce is over.
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It’s a shame to be called “educated” those who do not study the ancient Greek writers.
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To good and true love, fear is forever affixed.
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