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Francois Rabelais Quotes
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Type:
Clergyman Quotes
Category:
French Clergyman Quotes
Year of Birth:
1493
Date of Death:
April 9, 1553
Nationality:
French
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Francois Rabelais

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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

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