François Rabelais quotes - page 3

A habit does not a monk make. (François Rabelais)
The probity that scintillizes in the superfices of your persons informs my ratiocinating faculty, in a most stupendous manner, of the radiant virtues latent within the precious caskets and ventricles of your minds. View quote
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Friends, you will notice that in this world there are many more ballocks than men. Remember this. View quote
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There are more old drunkards than old physicians. View quote
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When undertaking marriage, everyone must be the judge of his own thoughts, and take counsel from himself. View quote
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The scent of wine, oh how much more agreeable, laughing, praying, celestial and delicious it is than that of oil! View quote
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The appetite grows with eating. View quote
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A bellyful is a bellyful. View quote
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Misery is the company of lawsuits. View quote
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The remedy for thirst? It is the opposite of the one for a dog bite: run always after a dog, he'll never bite you; drink always before thirst, and it will never overtake you. View quote
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The farce is finished. I go to seek a vast perhaps. (François Rabelais)
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. View quote
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Time, which gnaws and diminisheth all things else, augments and increaseth benefits; because a noble action of liberality, done to a man of reason, doth grow continually by his generous thinking of it and remembering it. View quote
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Remove idleness from the world and soon the arts of Cupid would perish. View quote
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Come, pluck up a good heart; speak the truth and shame the devil. View quote
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We have here other fish to fry. View quote
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It is enough to fright you out of your seven senses. View quote
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He always looked a given horse in the mouth. View quote
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I go to seek a great perhaps. View quote
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Panurge had no sooner heard this, but he was upon the high-rope. View quote
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He freshly and cheerfully asked him how a man should kill time. (François Rabelais)
Others made a virtue of necessity. View quote
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Our forefathers and ancestors of all times have been of this nature and disposition, that, upon the winning of a battle, they have chosen rather, for a sign and memorial of their triumphs and victories, to erect trophies and monuments in the hearts of the vanquished by clemency than by architecture in the lands which they had conquered. For they did hold in greater estimation the lively remembrance of men purchased by liberality than the dumb inscription of arches, pillars, and pyramids, subject to the injury of storms and tempests, and to the envy of everyone. View quote
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Which was performed to a T. View quote
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It is meat, drink, and cloth to us. View quote
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