I’d rather write about laughing than crying, For laughter makes men human, and courageous.
FRANCOIS RABELAISI’d rather write about laughing than crying, For laughter makes men human, and courageous.
FRANCOIS RABELAISIf you want to avoid seeing an idiot, break the mirror.
FRANCOIS RABELAISI am going to seek a great purpose, draw the curtain, the farce is played.
FRANCOIS RABELAISBut where are the snows of last year? That was the greatest concern of Villon, the Parisian poet.
FRANCOIS RABELAISThe 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.
FRANCOIS RABELAISOh thrice and four times happy, those who plant cabbages.
FRANCOIS RABELAISHe who has not an adventure has not horse or mule, so says Solomon.–Who is too adventurous, said Echephron,–loses horse and mule.
FRANCOIS RABELAISI never sleep in comfort save when I am hearing a sermon or praying to God.
FRANCOIS RABELAISI urge you to spend your youth profitably in study and virtue…. In brief, let me see in you an abyss of knowledge.
FRANCOIS RABELAISThere are more old drunkards than old physicians.
FRANCOIS RABELAISFate leads the willing, and th’ unwilling draws.
FRANCOIS RABELAISNature abhors a vacuum.
FRANCOIS RABELAISWisdom entereth not into a malicious mind.
FRANCOIS RABELAISWe always long for the forbidden things, and desire what is denied us.
FRANCOIS RABELAISOne falls to the ground in trying to sit on two stools.
FRANCOIS RABELAISHow 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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