When I drink, I think; and when I think, I drink.
FRANCOIS RABELAISThe Devil was sick – the Devil a monk would be, The Devil was well the devil a monk was he.
More Francois Rabelais Quotes
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I’ve often heard it said, as the common proverb goes, that a fool can teach a wise man well.
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Appetite comes with eating…..but thirst goes away with drinking.
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There are more old drunkards than old physicians.
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Oh how unhappy is the prince served by such men who are so easily corrupted.
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No clock is more regular than the belly.
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A war undertaken without sufficient monies has but a wisp of force. Coins are the very sinews of battles.
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There is nothing holy nor sacred to those who have abandoned God and reason in order to follow their perverse desires.
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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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A habit does not a monk make.
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The right moment wears a full head of hair: when it has been missed, you can’t get it back; it’s bald in the back of the head and never turns around.
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He that has patience may compass anything.
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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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Oh thrice and four times happy, those who plant cabbages.
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I never drink without a thirst, either present or future.
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A certain jollity of mind, pickled in the scorn of fortune.
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