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 RABELAISBut where are the snows of last year? That was the greatest concern of Villon, the Parisian poet.
More Francois Rabelais Quotes
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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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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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I’d gladly do without a valet. I’m never so well treated as when I’m without a valet.
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I’d rather write about laughing than crying, For laughter makes men human, and courageous.
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I drink for the thirst to come.
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He who has not an adventure has not horse or mule, so says Solomon.–Who is too adventurous, said Echephron,–loses horse and mule.
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Hungry bellies have no ears.
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To good and true love, fear is forever affixed.
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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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There are more old drunkards than old physicians.
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No noble man ever hated good wine.
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Giving words is an act of lovers.
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Nature abhors a vacuum.
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No clock is more regular than the belly.
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When I drink, I think; and when I think, I drink.
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