Strike the iron whilst it is hot.
FRANCOIS RABELAISFate leads the willing, and th’ unwilling draws.
More Francois Rabelais Quotes
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Appetite comes with eating.
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Machination is worth more than force.
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Such 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.
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Wisdom entereth not into a malicious mind.
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For God, nothing is impossible. And, if he wanted, in the future women would give birth from their ears.
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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 have known many who could not when they would, for they had not done it when they could.
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Ignorance is the mother of all evils.
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The deed will be accomplished with the least amount of bloodshed possible, and, if possible, we’ll save all the souls and send them happily off to their abode.
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Oh thrice and four times happy, those who plant cabbages.
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If the skies fall, one may hope to catch larks.
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A habit does not a monk make.
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Never did a great man hate good wine.
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Misery is the company of lawsuits.
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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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Half the world does not know how the other half lives.
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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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Friends, you will notice that in this world there are many more ballocks than men. Remember this.
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Indeed, said the monk, a mass, a matins, and vespers well rung are half-said.
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Appetite comes with eating…..but thirst goes away with drinking.
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I am going to seek a great purpose, draw the curtain, the farce is played.
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A child is not a vase to be filled, but a fire to be lit.
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An old monkey never makes a pretty face.
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No clock is more regular than the belly.
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Let every one be fully convinced in his own mind.
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Frugality is for the vulgar.
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