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
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