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It is the custom of Africa always to produce new and monstrous things.
Pantagruel (1532)
The belly has no ears nor is it to be filled with fair words.
Gargantua and Pantagruel (1532)
He briskly and cheerfully asked him how a man should kill time.
Pray tell me, does your time lie so heavy upon you in your world that you do not know how to bestow it better than in thus impudently talking, disputing, and writing of our sovereign lady?
Gargantua and Pantagruel (1532)
"Appetite comes with eating," says Angeston, "but thirst departs with drinking."
I never sleep comfortably except when I am at sermon or when I pray to God.
He who has not an adventure has not horse or mule, so says Solomon.—Who is too adventurous, said Echephron,—loses horse and mule, replied Malcon.
Against fortune the carter cracks his whip in vain.
Pantagruel (1532)
It is folly to put the plough in front of the oxen.
Gargantua (1534)
When the danger's past the saint is cheated.
Pantagruel (1532)
Debts and lies are generally mixed together.
Pantagruel (1532)
He beat the bushes without taking the birds.
Between two stools one sits on the ground.
Let us seek the solution of these doubts at the bottom of the inexhaustible well, where Heraclitus says that truth is hidden.
Pantagruel (1532)
Then I began to think that it is very true which is commonly said, that the one half of the world knoweth not how the other half liveth.
Gargantua and Pantagruel (1532)
What is got over the Devil's back is spent under the belly.
Gargantua and Pantagruel (1532)
It is enough to fright you out of your seven senses.
Gargantua and Pantagruel (1532)
Natura abhorret vacuum. (Nature abhors a vacuum.)
Gargantua (1534)
I believe he would make three bites of a cherry.
Gargantua and Pantagruel (1532)
So much is a man worth as he esteems himself.
Gargantua and Pantagruel (1532)