Gestures, in love, are incomparably more attractive, effective and valuable than words.
FRANCOIS RABELAISGestures, in love, are incomparably more attractive, effective and valuable than words.
FRANCOIS RABELAISThe 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.
FRANCOIS RABELAISI drink eternally. For me it is an eternity of drinking, and a drinking up of eternity.
FRANCOIS RABELAISBring down the curtain, the farce is over.
FRANCOIS RABELAISNever did a great man hate good wine.
FRANCOIS RABELAISTime, which wears down and diminishes all things, augments and increases good deeds, because a good turn liberally offered to a reasonable man grows continually through noble thought and memory.
FRANCOIS RABELAISIt is my feeling that Time ripens all things; with Time all things are revealed; Time is the father of truth.
FRANCOIS RABELAISIn this mortal life, nothing is blessed throughout.
FRANCOIS RABELAISThe dress does not make the monk.
FRANCOIS RABELAISSuch is the nature and make-up of the French that they are only good at the start. Then they are worse than devils, but, given time, they’re less than women.
FRANCOIS RABELAISI am going to seek a grand perhaps.
FRANCOIS RABELAISIt’s a shame to be called “educated” those who do not study the ancient Greek writers.
FRANCOIS RABELAISI never drink without a thirst, either present or future.
FRANCOIS RABELAISI build only living stones–men.
FRANCOIS RABELAISAn old monkey never makes a pretty face.
FRANCOIS RABELAISA man of good sense always believes what he is told, and what he finds written down.
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