If the skies fall, one may hope to catch larks.
FRANCOIS RABELAISThe most Christian France is the sole wet-nurse to the Roman court.
More Francois Rabelais Quotes
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Not everyone is a debtor who wishes to be; not everyone who wishes makes creditors.
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I owe much; I have nothing; the rest I leave to the poor.
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Plain as a nose in a man’s face.
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I drink for the thirst to come.
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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 have known many who could not when they would, for they had not done it when they could.
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Of a young hermit, an old devil.
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Half the world does not know how the other half lives.
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Believe me, ’tis a godlike thing to lend; to owe is a heroic virtue.
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How can I govern others, who can’t even govern myself?
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I am going to seek a great perhaps.
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I build only living stones–men.
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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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Everything comes in time to those who can wait.
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The belly has no ears nor is it to be filled with fair words.
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