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And there I began to think that it is very true, which is said, that half the world does not know how the other half lives.
Pantagruel (1532)
I am going to seek a grand perhaps; draw the curtain, the farce is played.
You are like the eels of Melun; you cry out before you are skinned.
By robbing Peter he paid Paul, … and hoped to catch larks if ever the heavens should fall.
Gargantua and Pantagruel (1532)
Comrades and fellow-soldiers, we have here met with an encounter, and they are ten times in number more than we. Shall we charge them or no?
Gargantua and Pantagruel (1532)
Following his example, I encourage all these diabolical calumniators to go hang themselves before the last moon's quarter is done. I will supply the rope.
Gargantua and Pantagruel (1532)
Thought the moon was made of green cheese.
Gargantua and Pantagruel (1532)
It is meat, drink, and cloth to us.
Gargantua and Pantagruel (1532)
We have here other fish to fry.
Gargantua and Pantagruel (1532)
Panurge had no sooner heard this, but he was upon the high-rope.
Gargantua and Pantagruel (1532)
We saw a knot of others, about a baker's dozen.
Gargantua and Pantagruel (1532)
Reverence thy preceptors: shun the conversation of those whom thou desirest not to resemble, and receive not in vain the graces which God has bestowed upon thee.
I'd rather write about laughing than crying,
For laughter makes men human, and courageous.
BE HAPPY!
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.
Gargantua and Pantagruel (1532)
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.
Gargantua and Pantagruel (1532)
But where are the snows of last year? That was the greatest concern of Villon, the Parisian poet.
Pantagruel (1532)
Turned the pigs into the grass. (Clover).
Would you damn your precious soul?
Gargantua and Pantagruel (1532)
You shall never want rope enough.
Gargantua and Pantagruel (1532)
Machination is worth more than force.
Pantagruel (1532)