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Authors
Francois Rabelais
French
Clergyman
About the author
We always long for the forbidden things, and desire what is denied us.
Francois Rabelais,
French
Clergyman
#Desire
#Forbidden
Tell the truth and shame the devil.
Francois Rabelais,
French
Clergyman
#Truth
#Devil
#Shame
It is better to write of laughter than of tears, for laughter is the property of man.
Francois Rabelais,
French
Clergyman
#Man
#Property
#Laughter
#Tears
It is my feeling that Time ripens all things; with Time all things are revealed; Time is the father of truth.
Francois Rabelais,
French
Clergyman
#Time
#Feeling
#Truth
#Father
Misery is the company of lawsuits.
Francois Rabelais,
French
Clergyman
#Misery
#Company
Nature abhors a vacuum.
Francois Rabelais,
French
Clergyman
#Nature
One falls to the ground in trying to sit on two stools.
Francois Rabelais,
French
Clergyman
#Trying
In their rules there was only one clause: Do what you will.
Francois Rabelais,
French
Clergyman
#Will
#Rules
Science without conscience is the death of the soul.
Francois Rabelais,
French
Clergyman
#Death
#Science
#Soul
#Conscience
The farce is finished. I go to seek a vast perhaps.
Francois Rabelais,
French
Clergyman
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.
Francois Rabelais,
French
Clergyman
#Will
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.
Francois Rabelais,
French
Clergyman
#Right
The scent of wine, oh how much more agreeable, laughing, praying, celestial and delicious it is than that of oil!
Francois Rabelais,
French
Clergyman
#Wine
There are more old drunkards than old physicians.
Francois Rabelais,
French
Clergyman
#Old
#Physicians
There is no truer cause of unhappiness amongst men than, where naturally expecting charity and benevolence, they receive harm and vexation.
Francois Rabelais,
French
Clergyman
#Men
#Cause
#Harm
#Unhappiness
#Charity
#Benevolence
Ignorance is the mother of all evils.
Francois Rabelais,
French
Clergyman
#Ignorance
#Mother
To good and true love fear is forever affixed.
Francois Rabelais,
French
Clergyman
#Love
#Fear
No clock is more regular than the belly.
Francois Rabelais,
French
Clergyman
When I drink, I think; and when I think, I drink.
Francois Rabelais,
French
Clergyman
When undertaking marriage, everyone must be the judge of his own thoughts, and take counsel from himself.
Francois Rabelais,
French
Clergyman
#Marriage
#Thoughts
Time, which wears down and diminishes all things, augments and increases good deeds, because a good turn liberally offered to a reasonable man grows continually through noble thought and memory.
Francois Rabelais,
French
Clergyman
#Time
#Thought
#Man
#Memory
#Deeds
Everything comes in time to those who can wait.
Francois Rabelais,
French
Clergyman
#Time
Remove idleness from the world and soon the arts of Cupid would perish.
Francois Rabelais,
French
Clergyman
#World
#Idleness
If you wish to avoid seeing a fool you must first break your looking glass.
Francois Rabelais,
French
Clergyman
#First
#Fool
A bellyful is a bellyful.
Francois Rabelais,
French
Clergyman
A habit does not a monk make.
Francois Rabelais,
French
Clergyman
#Habit
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.
Francois Rabelais,
French
Clergyman
#Time
#Study
#Effect
#Force
Debts and lies are generally mixed together.
Francois Rabelais,
French
Clergyman
#Lies
For he who can wait, everything comes in time.
Francois Rabelais,
French
Clergyman
#Time
Friends, you will notice that in this world there are many more ballocks than men. Remember this.
Francois Rabelais,
French
Clergyman
#Will
#World
#Friends
#Men
From the gut comes the strut, and where hunger reigns, strength abstains.
Francois Rabelais,
French
Clergyman
#Strength
#Hunger
Frugality is for the vulgar.
Francois Rabelais,
French
Clergyman
I place no hope in my strength, nor in my works: but all my confidence is in God my protector, who never abandons those who have put all their hope and thought in him.
Francois Rabelais,
French
Clergyman
#God
#Hope
#Strength
#Thought
#Confidence
Half the world does not know how the other half lives.
Francois Rabelais,
French
Clergyman
#World
How can I govern others, who can't even govern myself?
Francois Rabelais,
French
Clergyman
How do you know antiquity was foolish? How do you know the present is wise? Who made it foolish? Who made it wise?
Francois Rabelais,
French
Clergyman
#Present
How shall I be able to rule over others, that have not full power and command of myself?
Francois Rabelais,
French
Clergyman
#Power
I drink no more than a sponge.
Francois Rabelais,
French
Clergyman
I have known many who could not when they would, for they had not done it when they could.
Francois Rabelais,
French
Clergyman
Gestures, in love, are incomparably more attractive, effective and valuable than words.
Francois Rabelais,
French
Clergyman
#Love
#Words
Believe me, 'tis a godlike thing to lend; to owe is a heroic virtue.
Francois Rabelais,
French
Clergyman
#Virtue
I won't undertake war until I have tried all the arts and means of peace.
Francois Rabelais,
French
Clergyman
#War
#Peace
If the skies fall, one may hope to catch larks.
Francois Rabelais,
French
Clergyman
#Hope
#May
#Larks