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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.]
Topic: Adventure
Source: Gargantua (bk. I, ch. 33)
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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."]
Topic: Appetite
Source: Works (bk. I, ch. V)
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Believe me that it is a godlike thing to lend; to owe is a heroic
virtue.
Topic: Borrowing
Source: Pantagruel (bk. III, ch. IV)
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Between two stools one sits on the ground.
[Fr., S'asseoir entre deux selles le cul a terre.]
Topic: Choice
Source: Gargantua (bk. I, ch. II)
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You are Christians of the best edition, all picked and culled.
Topic: Christianity
Source: Works (bk. IV, ch. L)
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Petite ville, grand renom.
Small town, great renown.
Topic: Cities
Source: Pantagruel (bk. V, ch. XXXV), of Chinon, Rabelais's native town
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Stir up the hornets.
[Fr., Irriter les freslons.]
Topic: Contention
Source: Pantagruel
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A crier of green sauce.
Topic: Cookery
Source: Works (bk. II, ch. XXXI)
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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.]
Topic: Cowards
Source: Gargantua
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I am going to seek the great Perhaps.
Topic: Death / Immortality
Source: None
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He beat the bushes without taking the birds.
[Fr., [Il] battoit les buissons sans predre les ozillons.]
Topic: Failure
Source: Gargantua (ch. II)
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Panurge had a flea in his ear.
[Fr., Panurge auoyt la pulee en l' oreille.]
Topic: Fleas
Source: Pantagruel
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Hungry bellies have no cars.
[Fr., La ventre affame n'point d'oreilles.]
Topic: Hunger
Source: Pantagruel (bk. III, ch. XV)
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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.
Topic: Mountains
Source: Works (bk. IV, ch. XXXVIII)
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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.]
Topic: Order
Source: Gargantua (ch. XI)
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Nature abhors a vacuum.
[Fr., Natura abhorret vacuum.]
Topic: Proverbs
Source: Gargantua (ch. V)
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How well I feathered by nest.
Topic: Proverbs
Source: Works (bk. II, ch. SVII)
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He did not care a button for it.
Topic: Proverbs
Source: Works (bk. II, ch. XVI)
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Strike the iron whilst it is hot.
Topic: Proverbs
Source: Works (bk. II, ch. XXXI)
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Performed to a T.
Topic: Proverbs
Source: Works (bk. IV, ch. LI)
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Make three bites of a cherry.
Topic: Proverbs
Source: Works (bk. V, ch. XXVIII)
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You shall never want rope enough.
Topic: Proverbs
Source: Works--Prologue to the Fifth Book
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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.]
Topic: Snow
Source: Pantagruel (ch. XIV)
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I have known many who could not when they would, for they had not
done it when they could.
Topic: Will
Source: Pantagruel (bk. III, ch. XXVII)
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