The belly has no ears nor is it to be filled with fair words.
FRANCOIS RABELAISWar 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.
More Francois Rabelais Quotes
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Hungry bellies have no ears.
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Everything comes in time to those who can wait.
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No noble man ever hated good wine.
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Thought I to myself, we shall never come off scot-free.
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If you wish to avoid seeing a fool, you must first break your mirror
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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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Fate leads the willing, and th’ unwilling draws.
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All’s well in the end, if you’ve only the patience to wait.
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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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A crier of green sauce.
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I won’t undertake war until I have tried all the arts and means of peace.
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So much is a man worth as he esteems himself.
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Plain as a nose in a man’s face.
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Machination is worth more than force.
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Gestures, in love, are incomparably more attractive, effective and valuable than words.
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A little rain beats down a big wind. Long drinking bouts break open the tunder.
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Half the world does not know how the other half lives.
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I place no hope in my strength, nor in my works: but all my confidence is in God my protector, who never abandons those who have put all their hope and thought in him.
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I am going to seek a great perhaps.
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Giving words is an act of lovers.
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It is my feeling that Time ripens all things; with Time all things are revealed; Time is the father of truth.
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I never drink without a thirst, either present or future.
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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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In their rules there was only one clause: Do what you will.
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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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I drink eternally. For me it is an eternity of drinking, and a drinking up of eternity.
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