A bellyful is a bellyful.
Francois Rabelais
A habit does not a monk make.
Francois Rabelais
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
Believe me, 'tis a godlike thing to lend; to owe is a heroic virtue.
Francois Rabelais
Debts and lies are generally mixed together.
Francois Rabelais
Everything comes in time to those who can wait.
Francois Rabelais
For he who can wait, everything comes in time.
Francois Rabelais
Friends, you will notice that in this world there are many more ballocks than men. Remember this.
Francois Rabelais
From the gut comes the strut, and where hunger reigns, strength abstains.
Francois Rabelais
Frugality is for the vulgar.
Francois Rabelais
Gestures, in love, are incomparably more attractive, effective and valuable than words.
Francois Rabelais
Half the world does not know how the other half lives.
Francois Rabelais
How can I govern others, who can't even govern myself?
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
How shall I be able to rule over others, that have not full power and command of myself?
Francois Rabelais
I drink no more than a sponge.
Francois Rabelais
I have known many who could not when they would, for they had not done it when they could.
Francois Rabelais
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
I won't undertake war until I have tried all the arts and means of peace.
Francois Rabelais
If the skies fall, one may hope to catch larks.
Francois Rabelais
If you wish to avoid seeing a fool you must first break your looking glass.
Francois Rabelais
Ignorance is the mother of all evils.
Francois Rabelais
In their rules there was only one clause: Do what you will.
Francois Rabelais
It is better to write of laughter than of tears, for laughter is the property of man.
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
It is my opinion that time brings all things to fruition; by time all things are made plain; time is the father of truth.
Francois Rabelais
Misery is the company of Lawsuits.
Francois Rabelais
Nature abhors a vacuum.
Francois Rabelais
No clock is more regular than the belly.
Francois Rabelais
One falls to the ground in trying to sit on two stools.
Francois Rabelais
Remove idleness from the world and soon the arts of Cupid would perish.
Francois Rabelais
Science without conscience is the death of the soul.
Francois Rabelais
Tell the truth and shame the devil.
Francois Rabelais
The farce is finished. I go to seek a vast perhaps.
Francois Rabelais
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
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
The scent of wine, oh how much more agreeable, laughing, praying, celestial and delicious it is than that of oil!
Francois Rabelais
There are more old drunkards than old physicians.
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
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
To good and true love fear is forever affixed.
Francois Rabelais
We always long for the forbidden things, and desire what is denied us.
Francois Rabelais
When I drink, I think; and when I think, I drink.
Francois Rabelais
When undertaking marriage, everyone must be the judge of his own thoughts, and take counsel from himself.
Francois Rabelais
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