Zitat des Tages von Francois Rabelais:
If you wish to avoid seeing a fool you must first break your looking glass.
The farce is finished. I go to seek a vast perhaps.
For he who can wait, everything comes in time.
Tell the truth and shame the devil.
Friends, you will notice that in this world there are many more ballocks than men. Remember this.
Believe me, 'tis a godlike thing to lend; to owe is a heroic virtue.
If the skies fall, one may hope to catch larks.
Everything comes in time to those who can wait.
From the gut comes the strut, and where hunger reigns, strength abstains.
The scent of wine, oh how much more agreeable, laughing, praying, celestial and delicious it is than that of oil!
Half the world does not know how the other half lives.
A bellyful is a bellyful.
The remedy for thirst? It is the opposite of the one for a dog bite: run always after a dog, he'll never bite you; drink always before thirst, and it will never overtake you.
We always long for the forbidden things, and desire what is denied us.
I place no hope in my strength, nor in my works: but all my confidence is in God my protector, who never abandons those who have put all their hope and thought in him.
It is better to write of laughter than of tears, for laughter is the property of man.
No clock is more regular than the belly.
I won't undertake war until I have tried all the arts and means of peace.
There is no truer cause of unhappiness amongst men than, where naturally expecting charity and benevolence, they receive harm and vexation.
One falls to the ground in trying to sit on two stools.
How can I govern others, who can't even govern myself?
When I drink, I think; and when I think, I drink.
How do you know antiquity was foolish? How do you know the present is wise? Who made it foolish? Who made it wise?
Gestures, in love, are incomparably more attractive, effective and valuable than words.
Ignorance is the mother of all evils.
Science without conscience is the death of the soul.
It is my feeling that Time ripens all things; with Time all things are revealed; Time is the father of truth.
In their rules there was only one clause: Do what you will.
Time, which wears down and diminishes all things, augments and increases good deeds, because a good turn liberally offered to a reasonable man grows continually through noble thought and memory.
There are more old drunkards than old physicians.
I drink no more than a sponge.
Nature abhors a vacuum.
A habit does not a monk make.
Because just as arms have no force outside if there is no counsel within a house, study is vain and counsel useless that is not put to virtuous effect when the time calls.
When undertaking marriage, everyone must be the judge of his own thoughts, and take counsel from himself.