Strike the iron whilst it is hot.
FRANCOIS RABELAISA child is not a vase to be filled, but a fire to be lit.
More Francois Rabelais Quotes
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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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The dress does not make the monk.
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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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When I drink, I think; and when I think, I drink.
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Nature 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.
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A crier of green sauce.
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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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Let every one be fully convinced in his own mind.
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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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The Lord forbid that I should be out of debt, as if indeed I could not be trusted.
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How can I govern others, who can’t even govern myself?
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One should never pursue the hazards of fortune to their very ends andit behooves all adventurers to treat their good luck with reverence, neither bothering nor upsetting it.
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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.
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Debts and lies are generally mixed together.
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I drink for the thirst to come.
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He that has patience may compass anything.
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Don’t limp in front of the lame.
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The remedy for thirst? It is the opposite of the one for a dog bite: run always after a dog, he’ll never bite you; drink always before thirst, and it will never overtake you.
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I am going to seek a grand perhaps.
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Against fortune the carter cracks his whip in vain.
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The most Christian France is the sole wet-nurse to the Roman court.
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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.
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Appetite comes with eating…..but thirst goes away with drinking.
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Languages exist by arbitrary institutions and conventions among peoples; words, as the dialecticians tell us, do not signify naturally, but at our pleasure.
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We always long for the forbidden things, and desire what is denied us.
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Everything comes in time to those who can wait.
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