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.
FRANCOIS RABELAISWhen I drink, I think; and when I think, I drink.
More Francois Rabelais Quotes
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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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Pantagruelism is a certain gaitey of the spirit consisting in a disdain for the hazards of fortune.
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A little rain beats down a big wind. Long drinking bouts break open the tunder.
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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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One falls to the ground in trying to sit on two stools.
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Nature made the day for exercise, work and seeing to one’s business; and … it provides us with a candle, which is to say the bright and joyous light of the sun.
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I drink eternally. For me it is an eternity of drinking, and a drinking up of eternity.
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I won’t undertake war until I have tried all the arts and means of peace.
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I’d rather write about laughing than crying, For laughter makes men human, and courageous.
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A habit does not a monk make.
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We always long for the forbidden things, and desire what is denied us.
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It is better to write of laughter than of tears, for laughter is the property of man.
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Everything comes in time to those who can wait.
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Because just as arms have no force outside if there is no counsel within a house, study is vain and counsel useless that is not put to virtuous effect when the time calls.
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The scent of wine, oh how much more agreeable, laughing, praying, celestial and delicious it is than that of oil!
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