François Rabelais quotes - page 6

Pray tell me, does your time lie so heavy upon you in your world that you do not know how to bestow it better than in thus impudently talking, disputing, and writing of our sovereign lady? (François Rabelais)
Come, settle here a charitable faith, Which neighbourly affection nourisheth. View quote
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Grace, honour, praise, delight, Here sojourn day and night. View quote
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Here enter you, pure, honest, faithful, true Expounders of the Scriptures old and new. View quote
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That's all the glory my heart is after, Seeing how sorrow eats you, defeats you. I'd rather write about laughing than crying, For laughter makes men human, and courageous. View quote
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A mother-in-law dies only when another devil is needed in hell. View quote
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the wise may be instructed by a fool. View quote
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In end, this free goodwill and simple meaning of the Canarians wrought such tenderness in my father's heart that he could not abstain from shedding tears, and wept most profusely; then, by choice words very congruously adapted, strove in what he could to diminish the estimation of the good offices which he had done them, saying, that any courtesy he had conferred upon them was not worth a rush, and what favour soever he had showed them he was bound to do it. View quote
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There was left only the monk to provide for, whom Gargantua would have made Abbot of Seville, but he refused it. View quote
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Wisdom entereth not into a malicious mind, and that knowledge without conscience is but the ruin of the soul. View quote
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Here enter not attorneys, barristers, Nor bridle-champing law-practitioners: Clerks, commissaries, scribes, nor pharisees, Wilful disturbers of the people's ease: Judges, destroyers, with an unjust breath, Of honest men, like dogs, even unto death. (François Rabelais)
Out-strouting cluster-fists, contentious bulls, Fomenters of divisions and debates, Elsewhere, not here, make sale of your deceits. View quote
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Loupgarou was come with all his giants, who, seeing Pantagruel in a manner alone, was carried away with temerity and presumption, for hopes that he had to kill the good man. View quote
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Here enter not vile bigots, hypocrites, Externally devoted apes, base snites, Puffed-up, wry-necked beasts, worse than the Huns. View quote
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In the school of Pythagoras, taciturnity was the symbol of abstracted and superlative knowledge, and the silence of the Egyptians was agnited as an expressive manner of divine adoration; this caused the pontiffs of Hierapolis to sacrifice to the great deity in silence, impercussively, without any vociferous or obstreperous sound. View quote
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As soon as he was born, he cried not as other babes use to do, Miez, miez, miez, miez, but with a high, sturdy, and big voice shouted about, Some drink, some drink, some drink, as inviting all the world to drink with him. View quote
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Do you esteem men by their number rather than by their valour and prowess? View quote
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The Lord celestial Hath given enough wherewith to please us all. View quote
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Then shall you many gallant men see by Valour stirr'd up, and youthful fervency, Who, trusting too much in their hopeful time, Live but a while, and perish in their prime. Neither shall any, who this course shall run, Leave off the race which he hath once begun, Till they the heavens with noise by their contention Have fill'd, and with their steps the earth's dimension. View quote
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Believe it, if you will, or otherwise, believe it not, I care not which of them you do, they are both alike to me. It shall be sufficient for my purpose to have told you the truth, and the truth I will tell you. View quote
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On the third day the sky seemed to us somewhat clearer, and we happily arrived at the port of Mateotechny, not far distant from Queen Whims, alias the Quintessence. (François Rabelais)
Comrades and fellow-soldiers, we have here met with an encounter, and they are ten times in number more than we. Shall we charge them or no? View quote
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For he who can wait, everything comes in time. View quote
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I am going to search for the great perhaps. View quote
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I owe much I have nothing the rest I leave to the poor. View quote
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