The belly has no ears nor is it to be filled with fair words.
FRANCOIS RABELAISFate leads the willing, and th’ unwilling draws.
More Francois Rabelais Quotes
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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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But where are the snows of last year? That was the greatest concern of Villon, the Parisian poet.
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Strike the iron whilst it is hot.
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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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Early rising is no pleasure; early drinking’s just the measure.
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Science sans conscience. Knowledge without conscience is but the ruin of the soul.
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I won’t undertake war until I have tried all the arts and means of peace.
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I drink no more than a sponge.
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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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We will take the good-will for the deed.
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I never sleep in comfort save when I am hearing a sermon or praying to God.
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All’s well in the end, if you’ve only the patience to wait.
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Don’t limp in front of the lame.
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The scent of wine, oh how much more agreeable, laughing, praying, celestial and delicious it is than that of oil!
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Bring down the curtain, the farce is over.
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