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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. — Francois Rabelais

Bring down the curtain,
the farce is played out. — Francois Rabelais

Tell the truth and shame the devil. — Francois Rabelais

I drink no more than a sponge. — Francois Rabelais

A certain jollity of mind, pickled in the scorn of fortune. — Francois Rabelais

May the fire of St. Anthony fly up thy fundament. — Francois Rabelais

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

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

He that has patience may compass anything. — Francois Rabelais

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 Rabelais

I am going to seek the great Perhaps. — Francois Rabelais

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

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

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

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

Oh thrice and four times happy ... those who plant cabbages. — Francois Rabelais

I build only living stones
men. — Francois Rabelais

Not everyone is a debtor who wishes to be; not everyone who wishes makes creditors. — Francois Rabelais

Science without conscience is the soul's perdition. — Francois Rabelais

If you want to avoid seeing an idiot, break the mirror. — Francois Rabelais

A crier of green sauce. — Francois Rabelais

No noble man ever hated good wine. — Francois Rabelais

We will take the good-will for the deed. — Francois Rabelais

So much is a man worth as he esteems himself. — Francois Rabelais

The Lord forbid that I should be out of debt, as if indeed I could not be trusted. — Francois Rabelais

The appetite grows with eating. — Francois Rabelais

Plain as a nose in a man's face. — Francois Rabelais

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

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

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. — Francois Rabelais

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

Giving words [is] an act of lovers. — Francois Rabelais

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

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

I am going to seek a great perhaps. — Francois Rabelais

A habit does not a monk make. — Francois Rabelais

O laugh is proper to the man. — Francois Rabelais

I am going to seek a great purpose, draw the curtain, the farce is played. — Francois Rabelais

All's well in the end, if you've only the patience to wait. — Francois Rabelais

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

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

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

Bring down the curtain, the farce is over — Francois Rabelais

Hungry bellies have no cars. — Francois Rabelais

Science without conscience is the death of the soul. — Francois Rabelais

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

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

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

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

Death is the vast perhaps. — Francois Rabelais

Don't limp in front of the lame. — Francois Rabelais

Half the world does not know how the other half lives. — Francois Rabelais

To laugh is proper to man. — Francois Rabelais

Seeing how sorrow eats you, defeats you.
I'd rather write about laughing than crying,
For laughter makes men human, and courageous. — Francois Rabelais

Never did a great man hate good wine. — Francois Rabelais

Gestures, in love, are incomparably more attractive, effective and valuable than words. — Francois Rabelais

In this mortal life, nothing is blessed throughout. — Francois Rabelais

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

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

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. — Francois Rabelais

I drink for the thirst to come. — Francois Rabelais

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

To good and true love fear is forever affixed. — Francois Rabelais

A child is not a vase to be filled, but a fire to be lit. — Francois Rabelais

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

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

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

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

Fate leads the willing, and th' unwilling draws. — Francois Rabelais

Between two stools one sits on the ground. — Francois Rabelais

Frugality is for the vulgar. — Francois Rabelais

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

I do not drink more than a sponge. — Francois Rabelais

I won't undertake war until I have tried all the arts and means of peace. — Francois Rabelais

I am going to seek a great perhaps; draw a curtain, the farce is played out. — Francois Rabelais

Appetite comes with eating ... but thirst goes away with drinking. — Francois Rabelais

Ignorance is the mother of all evils. — Francois Rabelais

Let every one be fully convinced in his own mind. — Francois Rabelais

No clock is more regular than the belly. — Francois Rabelais

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. — Francois Rabelais

a child is a fire to be lit, not a vase to be filled — Francois Rabelais

Remove idleness from the world and soon the arts of Cupid would perish. — Francois Rabelais

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

How can I govern others, who can't even govern myself? — Francois Rabelais

For he who can wait, everything comes in time. — Francois Rabelais

There are more old drunkards than old physicians. — Francois Rabelais

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

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

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

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

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

..to laugh is proper to the man. — Francois Rabelais

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. — Francois Rabelais

If you wish to avoid seeing a fool you must first break your looking glass. — Francois Rabelais

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

Machination is worth more than force. — Francois Rabelais

It is folly to put the plough in front of the oxen. — Francois Rabelais

Appetite comes with eating. — Francois Rabelais

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

An old monkey never makes a pretty face. — Francois Rabelais