Giving words is an act of lovers.
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Anand Thakur
Giving words is an act of lovers.
FRANCOIS RABELAISThe 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.
FRANCOIS RABELAISStrike the iron whilst it is hot.
FRANCOIS RABELAISIf you understand why a monkey in a family is always mocked and harassed, you understand why monks are rejected by all–both old and young.
FRANCOIS RABELAISIf in your soil it takes, to heaven A thousand thousand thanks be given; And say with France, it goodly goes, Where the Pantagruelion grows.
FRANCOIS RABELAISThe most Christian France is the sole wet-nurse to the Roman court.
FRANCOIS RABELAISHalf the world does not know how the other half lives.
FRANCOIS RABELAISBring down the curtain, the farce is over.
FRANCOIS RABELAISHe who has not an adventure has not horse or mule, so says Solomon.–Who is too adventurous, said Echephron,–loses horse and mule.
FRANCOIS RABELAISI owe much; I have nothing; the rest I leave to the poor.
FRANCOIS RABELAISCan there be any greater dotage in the world than for one to guide and direct his courses by the sound of a bell, and not by his own judgment.
FRANCOIS RABELAISThe Lord forbid that I should be out of debt, as if indeed I could not be trusted.
FRANCOIS RABELAISIf 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.
FRANCOIS RABELAISAll’s well in the end, if you’ve only the patience to wait.
FRANCOIS RABELAISThe scent of wine, oh how much more agreeable, laughing, praying, celestial and delicious it is than that of oil!
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.
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