One falls to the ground in trying to sit on two stools.
FRANCOIS RABELAISThe most Christian France is the sole wet-nurse to the Roman court.
More Francois Rabelais Quotes
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Fate leads the willing, and th’ unwilling draws.
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I’d gladly do without a valet. I’m never so well treated as when I’m without a valet.
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Keep running after a dog and he will never bite you.
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From the gut comes the strut, and where hunger reigns, strength abstains.
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How do you know antiquity was foolish? How do you know the present is wise? Who made it foolish? Who made it wise?
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I drink no more than a sponge.
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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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No clock is more regular than the belly.
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Indeed, said the monk, a mass, a matins, and vespers well rung are half-said.
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Pantagruelism is a certain gaitey of the spirit consisting in a disdain for the hazards of fortune.
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Science sans conscience. Knowledge without conscience is but the ruin of the soul.
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All’s well in the end, if you’ve only the patience to wait.
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If you wish to avoid seeing a fool, you must first break your mirror
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A little rain beats down a big wind. Long drinking bouts break open the tunder.
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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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