Indeed, said the monk, a mass, a matins, and vespers well rung are half-said.
FRANCOIS RABELAISWhen I drink, I think; and when I think, I drink.
More Francois Rabelais Quotes
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Row on whatever happens.
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One should never pursue the hazards of fortune to their very ends andit behooves all adventurers to treat their good luck with reverence, neither bothering nor upsetting it.
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Tell the truth and shame the devil.
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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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It is my feeling that Time ripens all things; with Time all things are revealed; Time is the father of truth.
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Plain as a nose in a man’s face.
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I’d rather write about laughing than crying, For laughter makes men human, and courageous.
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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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It is said, proverbially, that happy is the doctor who is called in when the disease is on its way out.
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An old monkey never makes a pretty face.
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For God, nothing is impossible. And, if he wanted, in the future women would give birth from their ears.
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Machination is worth more than force.
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I drink no more than a sponge.
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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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It is better to write of laughter than of tears, for laughter is the property of man.
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