I drink no more than a sponge.
FRANCOIS RABELAISMisery is the company of lawsuits.
More Francois Rabelais Quotes
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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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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.
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To laugh is proper to man.
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Indeed, said the monk, a mass, a matins, and vespers well rung are half-said.
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A child is not a vase to be filled, but a fire to be lit.
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So much is a man worth as he esteems himself.
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But where are the snows of last year? That was the greatest concern of Villon, the Parisian poet.
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The dress does not make the monk.
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He that has patience may compass anything.
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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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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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One falls to the ground in trying to sit on two stools.
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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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Thought I to myself, we shall never come off scot-free.
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I won’t undertake war until I have tried all the arts and means of peace.
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