He who has not an adventure has not horse or mule, so says Solomon.–Who is too adventurous, said Echephron,–loses horse and mule.
FRANCOIS RABELAISNot everyone is a debtor who wishes to be; not everyone who wishes makes creditors.
More Francois Rabelais Quotes
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Everything comes in time to those who can wait.
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I’d rather write about laughing than crying, For laughter makes men human, and courageous.
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Indeed, said the monk, a mass, a matins, and vespers well rung are half-said.
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I am going to seek a grand perhaps.
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From the gut comes the strut, and where hunger reigns, strength abstains.
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I am going to seek a great purpose, draw the curtain, the farce is played.
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Fate leads the willing, and th’ unwilling draws.
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No noble man ever hated good wine.
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Nature abhors a vacuum.
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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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Strike the iron whilst it is hot.
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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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Never did a great man hate good wine.
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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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The scent of wine, oh how much more agreeable, laughing, praying, celestial and delicious it is than that of oil!
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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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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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If you want to avoid seeing an idiot, break the mirror.
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One falls to the ground in trying to sit on two stools.
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Bring down the curtain, the farce is over.
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A good intention does not mean honor.
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A crier of green sauce.
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In this mortal life, nothing is blessed throughout.
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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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Ignorance is the mother of all evils.
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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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