| 26 Famous Quotes by Francois Rabelais
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“Debts and lies are generally mixed together”
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“We always long for the forbidden things, and desire what is denied us.”
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“Nature abhors a vacuum.
[Fr., Natura abhorret vacuum.]”
Proverbs Quotes Source: Gargantua (ch. V)
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“How well I feathered by nest.”
Proverbs Quotes Source: Works (bk. II, ch. SVII)
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“He did not care a button for it.”
Proverbs Quotes Source: Works (bk. II, ch. XVI)
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“Strike the iron whilst it is hot.”
Proverbs Quotes Source: Works (bk. II, ch. XXXI)
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“Performed to a T.”
Proverbs Quotes Source: Works (bk. IV, ch. LI)
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“Make three bites of a cherry.”
Proverbs Quotes Source: Works (bk. V, ch. XXVIII)
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“You shall never want rope enough.”
Proverbs Quotes Source: Works--Prologue to the Fifth Book
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“You are Christians of the best edition, all picked and culled.”
Christianity Quotes Source: Works (bk. IV, ch. L)
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“He beat the bushes without taking the birds.
[Fr., [Il] battoit les buissons sans predre les ozillons.]”
Failure Quotes Source: Gargantua (ch. II)
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“But where are the snows of last year? That was the greatest
concern of Villon, the Parisian poet.
[Fr., Mais ou sont les neiges d'antan? C'estoit le plus grand
soucy qu'eust Villon, le poete parisien.]”
Snow Quotes Source: Pantagruel (ch. XIV)
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“Panurge had a flea in his ear.
[Fr., Panurge auoyt la pulee en l' oreille.]”
Fleas Quotes Source: Pantagruel
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“I would have you call to mind the strength of the ancient giants,
that undertook to lay the high mountain Pelion on the top of
Ossa, and set among those the shady Olympus.”
Mountains Quotes Source: Works (bk. IV, ch. XXXVIII)
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“You are like the eels of Melun; you cry out before you are
skinned.
[Fr., Vous semblez les anguilles de Melun; vous criez devant
qu'on vous esorche.]”
Cowards Quotes Source: Gargantua
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“He who has not an adventure has not horse or mule, so says
Solomon.--Who is too adventurous, said Echephron,--loses horse
and mule.
[Fr., Qui ne s'adventure n'a cheval ny mule, ce dist Salomon.--
Qui trop, dist Echephron, s'adventure--perd cheval et mule,
respondit Malcon.]”
Adventure Quotes Source: Gargantua (bk. I, ch. 33)
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“Between two stools one sits on the ground.
[Fr., S'asseoir entre deux selles le cul a terre.]”
Choice Quotes Source: Gargantua (bk. I, ch. II)
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“It is folly to put the plough in front of the oxen.
[Fr., Folie est mettre la charrue devant les boeufs.]”
Order Quotes Source: Gargantua (ch. XI)
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“Stir up the hornets.
[Fr., Irriter les freslons.]”
Contention Quotes Source: Pantagruel
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“Believe me that it is a godlike thing to lend; to owe is a heroic
virtue.”
Borrowing Quotes Source: Pantagruel (bk. III, ch. IV)
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“Petite ville, grand renom.
Small town, great renown.”
Cities Quotes Source: Pantagruel (bk. V, ch. XXXV), of Chinon, Rabelais's native town
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“Hungry bellies have no cars.
[Fr., La ventre affame n'point d'oreilles.]”
Hunger Quotes Source: Pantagruel (bk. III, ch. XV)
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“A crier of green sauce.”
Cookery Quotes Source: Works (bk. II, ch. XXXI)
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“"Appetite comes with eating," says Angeston, "but thirst departs
with drinking."
[Fr., "L'appetit vient en mangeant," disoit Angeston, "mais la
soif e'en va en beuvant."]”
Appetite Quotes Source: Works (bk. I, ch. V)
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“I have known many who could not when they would, for they had not
done it when they could.”
Will Quotes Source: Pantagruel (bk. III, ch. XXVII)
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