Strike the iron whilst it is hot.
FRANCOIS RABELAISDebts and lies are generally mixed together.
More Francois Rabelais Quotes
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Row on whatever happens.
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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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The scent of wine, oh how much more agreeable, laughing, praying, celestial and delicious it is than that of oil!
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We always long for the forbidden things, and desire what is denied us.
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I never sleep in comfort save when I am hearing a sermon or praying to God.
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A habit does not a monk make.
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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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We will take the good-will for the deed.
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Gestures, in love, are incomparably more attractive, effective and valuable than words.
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So much is a man worth as he esteems himself.
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Oh thrice and four times happy, those who plant cabbages.
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Nature abhors a vacuum.
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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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All’s well in the end, if you’ve only the patience to wait.
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Because just as arms have no force outside if there is no counsel within a house, study is vain and counsel useless that is not put to virtuous effect when the time calls.
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Let every one be fully convinced in his own mind.
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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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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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Friends, you will notice that in this world there are many more ballocks than men. Remember this.
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Everything comes in time to those who can wait.
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Indeed, said the monk, a mass, a matins, and vespers well rung are half-said.
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A crier of green sauce.
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The belly has no ears nor is it to be filled with fair words.
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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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If you wish to avoid seeing a fool, you must first break your mirror
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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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