There are more old drunkards than old physicians.
FRANCOIS RABELAISIt is my feeling that Time ripens all things; with Time all things are revealed; Time is the father of truth.
More Francois Rabelais Quotes
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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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A crier of green sauce.
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Tell the truth and shame the devil.
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I owe much; I have nothing; the rest I leave to the poor.
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War begun without good provision of money beforehand for going through with it is but as a breathing of strength and blast that will quickly pass away. Coin is the sinews of war.
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Debts and lies are generally mixed together.
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I am going to seek a grand perhaps.
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The belly has no ears nor is it to be filled with fair words.
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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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All’s well in the end, if you’ve only the patience to wait.
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I drink no more than a sponge.
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We always long for the forbidden things, and desire what is denied us.
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I have known many who could not when they would, for they had not done it when they could.
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I won’t undertake war until I have tried all the arts and means of peace.
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The farce is finished. I go to seek a vast perhaps.
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There is nothing holy nor sacred to those who have abandoned God and reason in order to follow their perverse desires.
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Bring down the curtain, the farce is over.
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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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So much is a man worth as he esteems himself.
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Indeed, said the monk, a mass, a matins, and vespers well rung are half-said.
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The deed will be accomplished with the least amount of bloodshed possible, and, if possible, we’ll save all the souls and send them happily off to their abode.
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No noble man ever hated good wine.
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Friends, you will notice that in this world there are many more ballocks than men. Remember this.
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Gestures, in love, are incomparably more attractive, effective and valuable than words.
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The Lord forbid that I should be out of debt, as if indeed I could not be trusted.
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Of a young hermit, an old devil.
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