Quotes from Gargantua and Pantagruel — François Rabelais
d. 1553 France
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Here enter you, pure, honest, faithful, true
Expounders of the Scriptures old and new.
Come, pluck up a good heart; speak the truth and shame the devil.
Looking as like...as one pea does like another.
We will take the good-will for the deed.
Do not believe what I tell you here any more than if it were some tale of a tub.
I never follow the clock: hours were made for man, not man for hours.
You are Christians of the best edition, all picked and culled.
Above the pitch, out of tune, and off the hinges.
He always looked a given horse in the mouth.
Spare your breath to cool your porridge.
Subject to a kind of disease, which at that time they called lack of money.
Do you esteem men by their number rather than by their valour and prowess?
He freshly and cheerfully asked him how a man should kill time.
Nothing is so dear and precious as time.
The belly has no ears nor is it to be filled with fair words.
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Quotes and notes from Wikiquote: François Rabelais (page history), available under CC BY-SA 4.0.