The most Christian France is the sole wet-nurse to the Roman court.
FRANCOIS RABELAISPantagruel 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.
More Francois Rabelais Quotes
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No clock is more regular than the belly.
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The Devil was sick – the Devil a monk would be, The Devil was well the devil a monk was he.
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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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From the gut comes the strut, and where hunger reigns, strength abstains.
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A man of good sense always believes what he is told, and what he finds written down.
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Thought I to myself, we shall never come off scot-free.
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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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Row on whatever happens.
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The appetite grows with eating.
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Bring down the curtain, the farce is over.
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Pantagruelism is a certain gaitey of the spirit consisting in a disdain for the hazards of fortune.
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Never did a great man hate good wine.
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It’s a shame to be called “educated” those who do not study the ancient Greek writers.
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If in your soil it takes, to heaven A thousand thousand thanks be given; And say with France, it goodly goes, Where the Pantagruelion grows.
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Ignorance is the mother of all evils.
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