Thought I to myself, we shall never come off scot-free.
FRANCOIS RABELAISEverything comes in time to those who can wait.
More Francois Rabelais Quotes
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The belly has no ears nor is it to be filled with fair words.
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I never drink without a thirst, either present or future.
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If you wish to be good “Pantagruelists” (which is to say, live in peace, joy, health, and always dining well), never put too much faith in people who look out through a hole.
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No clock is more regular than the belly.
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Never did a great man hate good wine.
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Fate leads the willing, and th’ unwilling draws.
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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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Science sans conscience. Knowledge without conscience is but the ruin of the soul.
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If the head is lost, all that perishes is the individual; if the balls are lost, all of human nature perishes.
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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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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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Pantagruel was telling me that he believed the queen had given the symbolic word used among her subjects to denote sovereign good cheer, when she said to her tabachins, A panacea.
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Believe me, ’tis a godlike thing to lend; to owe is a heroic virtue.
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We always long for the forbidden things, and desire what is denied us.
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I never sleep in comfort save when I am hearing a sermon or praying to God.
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