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Quotes from Gargantua and Pantagruel — François Rabelais

d. 1553 France

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We have here other fish to fry.

Gargantua and Pantagruel (1532)

Panurge had no sooner heard this, but he was upon the high-rope.

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We saw a knot of others, about a baker's dozen.

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On the third day the sky seemed to us somewhat clearer, and we happily arrived at the port of Mateotechny, not far distant from Queen Whims, alias the Quintessence.

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Loupgarou was come with all his giants, who, seeing Pantagruel in a manner alone, was carried away with temerity and presumption, for hopes that he had to kill the good man.

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Would you damn your precious soul?

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You shall never want rope enough.

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Scampering as if the Devil drove them.

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What cannot be cured must be endured.

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Send them home as merry as crickets.

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And so on to the end of the chapter.

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He laid him squat as a flounder.

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I drink no more than a sponge.

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That's all the glory my heart is after,
Seeing how sorrow eats you, defeats you.
I'd rather write about laughing than crying,
For laughter makes men human, and courageous.

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The probity that scintillizes in the superfices of your persons informs my ratiocinating faculty, in a most stupendous manner, of the radiant virtues latent within the precious caskets and ventricles of your minds.

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He did not care a button for it.

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Pantagruel was telling me that he believed the queen had given the symbolic word used among her subjects to denote sovereign good cheer, when she said to her tabachins, A panacea.

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Time, which gnaws and diminisheth all things else, augments and increaseth benefits; because a noble action of liberality, done to a man of reason, doth grow continually by his generous thinking of it and remembering it.

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The Devil was sick, — the Devil a monk would be;
The Devil was well, — the devil a monk was he.

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If in your soil it takes, to heaven
A thousand thousand thanks be given;
And say with France, it goodly goes,
Where the Pantagruelion grows.

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Attribution

Quotes and notes from Wikiquote: François Rabelais (page history), available under CC BY-SA 4.0.