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Thirst, for who in the time of innocence would have drunk without being athirst? Nay, sir, it was drinking; for privatio praesupponit habitum.

The farce is finished. I go to seek a vast perhaps.

Bring down the curtain,
the farce is played out.

Tell the truth and shame the devil.

I drink no more than a sponge.

May the fire of St. Anthony fly up thy fundament.

I'd gladly do without a valet. I'm never so well treated as when I'm without a valet.

Ha! for a divine and lordly manor, there is nothing like solid ground.

He that has patience may compass anything.

He who has not an adventure has not horse or mule, so says Solomon.
Who is too adventurous, said Echephron,
loses horse and mule.

I am going to seek the great Perhaps.

How do you know antiquity was foolish? How do you know the present is wise? Who made it foolish? Who made it wise?

The Devil was sick - the Devil a monk would be, The Devil was well the devil a monk was he

Early rising is no pleasure; early drinking's just the measure.

I have nothing, I owe a great deal, and the rest I leave to the poor.

Pantagruelism is a certain gaitey of the spirit consisting in a disdain for the hazards of fortune.

Oh thrice and four times happy ... those who plant cabbages.

I build only living stones
men.

Science without conscience is the soul's perdition.

A crier of green sauce.

No noble man ever hated good wine.

From the gut comes the strut, and where hunger reigns, strength abstains.

Bring down the curtain, the farce is over

Science without conscience is the death of the soul.

A mother-in-law dies only when another devil is needed in hell.

Keep running after a dog and he will never bite you.

If 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.

One falls to the ground in trying to sit on two stools.

Half the world does not know how the other half lives.

A habit does not a monk make.

To laugh is proper to man.

Bottle, whose Mysterious Deep Do's ten thousand Secrets keep, With attentive Ear I wait; Ease my Mind, and speak my Fate.

The belly has no ears nor is it to be filled with fair words.

Death is the vast perhaps.

Don't limp in front of the lame.

How shall I be able to rule over others, that have not full power and command of myself?

the wise may be instructed by a fool

Debts and lies are generally mixed together.

The scent of wine, oh how much more agreeable, laughing, praying, celestial and delicious it is than that of oil!

I owe much; I have nothing; the rest I leave to the poor.

I never sleep comfortably except when I am at sermon or when I pray to God.

Oh how unhappy is the prince served by such men who are so easily corrupted.

If the skies fall, one may hope to catch larks.

There is nothing holy nor sacred to those who have abandoned God and reason in order to follow their perverse desires.

It is better to write of laughter than of tears, for laughter is the property of man.

Indeed, said the monk, a mass, a matins, and vespers well rung are half-said.

It is said, proverbially, that happy is the doctor who is called in when the disease is on its way out.

Misery is the company of lawsuits.

A war undertaken without sufficient monies has but a wisp of force. Coins are the very sinews of battles.

I have known many who could not when they would, for they had not done it when they could.

A bellyful is a bellyful.

Strike the iron whilst it is hot.

Thought I to myself, we shall never come off scot-free.

I go to see a Greater Perhaps.

I never sleep in comfort save when I am hearing a sermon or praying to God.

Everything comes in time to those who can wait.

Wisdom entereth not into a malicious mind.

For God, nothing is impossible. And, if he wanted, in the future women would give birth from their ears.

But where are the snows of last year? That was the greatest concern of Villon, the Parisian poet.

Machination is worth more than force.

Appetite comes with eating.

There is no truer cause of unhappiness amongst men than, where naturally expecting charity and benevolence, they receive harm and vexation.

We always long for the forbidden things, and desire what is denied us.

In their rules there was only one clause: Do what you will.

I've often heard it said, as the common proverb goes, that a fool can teach a wise man well.

How comes it that you curse, Frere Jean? It's only, said the monk, in order to embellish my language. They are the colors of Ciceronian rhetoric.

I drink for the thirst to come.

When undertaking marriage, everyone must be the judge of his own thoughts, and take counsel from himself.

Baste! enough! I sup, I wet, I humect, I moisten my gullet, I drink, and all for fear of dying. Drink always and you shall never die.

One inch of joy surmounts of grief a span, Because to laugh is proper to the man.

I urge you to spend your youth profitably in study and virtue ... In brief, let me see in you an abyss of knowledge.

In this mortal life, nothing is blessed throughout.

Fate leads the willing, and th' unwilling draws.

Between two stools one sits on the ground.

Frugality is for the vulgar.

If the head is lost, all that perishes is the individual; if the balls are lost, all of human nature perishes.

I do not drink more than a sponge.

Appetite comes with eating ... but thirst goes away with drinking.

Ignorance is the mother of all evils.

Can 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.

The appetite grows with eating.

Plain as a nose in a man's face.

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.

I drink eternally. For me it is an eternity of drinking, and a drinking up of eternity.

A little rain beats down a big wind. Long drinking bouts break open the tun(der).

Giving words [is] an act of lovers.

Let every one be fully convinced in his own mind.

I never drink without a thirst, either present or future.

I am going to seek a great perhaps.

It is my feeling that Time ripens all things; with Time all things are revealed; Time is the father of truth.

You have no obligation under the sun other than to discover your real needs, to fulfill them, and to rejoice in doing so.

Friends, you will notice that in this world there are many more ballocks than men. Remember this.

For he who can wait, everything comes in time.

There are more old drunkards than old physicians.

The dress does not make the monk.
[Fr., L'habit ne fait le moine.]

It's a shame to be called "educated" those who do not study the ancient Greek writers.

Believe me, 'tis a godlike thing to lend; to owe is a heroic virtue.

No clock is more regular than the belly.

A man of good sense always believes what he is told, and what he finds written down.

..to laugh is proper to the man.