Tag: François Rabelais

Nothing is so dear and precious as time.

François Rabelais

He that has patience may compass anything.

François Rabelais

We will take the good will for the deed.

François Rabelais

By robbing Peter he paid Paul, … and hoped to catch larks if ever the heavens should fall.

François Rabelais

We have here other fish to fry.

François Rabelais

What cannot be cured must be endured.

François Rabelais

Necessity has no law.

François Rabelais

Subject to a kind of disease, which at that time they called lack of money.

François Rabelais

I never follow the clock: hours were made for man, not man for hours.

François Rabelais

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.

François Rabelais