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„Я иду искать великое «Быть Может.»“

„У меня ничего нет, я много должен; остальное отдайте бедным.“

„Все приходит вовремя, если люди умеют ждать.“

„Разум человека сильнее его кулаков.“

„Время является отцом истины.“

„Деньги — это мышцы войны.“

„Кто обладает терпением, может достичь всего.“

„Я ничего не боюсь, кроме опасностей.“

„Старых пьяниц встречаешь чаще, чем старых докторов.“

„Возвращаясь к нашим баранам…“

„Я пью не больше, чем губка.“

„Писать лучше смеясь, чем со слезами, ибо смех — особенная примета человека.“

„Аппетит приходит во время еды.“

„Возвращаясь к нашим баранам, я должен сказать, что по великой милости божьей родословная Гаргантюа с древнейших времён дошла до нас в более полном виде, чем какая-либо ещё, не считая родословной Мессии…“

“Gestures, in love, are incomparably more attractive, effective and valuable than words.”

“Come, pluck up a good heart; speak the truth and shame the devil.”

“the wise may be instructed by a fool”

“If the skies fall, one may hope to catch larks.”

“We have here other fish to fry.”

“In end, this free goodwill and simple meaning of the Canarians wrought such tenderness in my father's heart that he could not abstain from shedding tears, and wept most profusely; then, by choice words very congruously adapted, strove in what he could to diminish the estimation of the good offices which he had done them, saying, that any courtesy he had conferred upon them was not worth a rush, and what favour soever he had showed them he was bound to do it.”

“It is enough to fright you out of your seven senses.”

“He always looked a given horse in the mouth.”

“So much is a man worth as he esteems himself.”

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

“He freshly and cheerfully asked him how a man should kill time.”

“Others made a virtue of necessity.”

“Our forefathers and ancestors of all times have been of this nature and disposition, that, upon the winning of a battle, they have chosen rather, for a sign and memorial of their triumphs and victories, to erect trophies and monuments in the hearts of the vanquished by clemency than by architecture in the lands which they had conquered. For they did hold in greater estimation the lively remembrance of men purchased by liberality than the dumb inscription of arches, pillars, and pyramids, subject to the injury of storms and tempests, and to the envy of everyone.”

“Which was performed to a T.”

“It is meat, drink, and cloth to us.”

“And so on to the end of the chapter.”

“Nothing is so dear and precious as time.”

“A certain jollity of mind, pickled in the scorn of fortune.”

“Needs must when the Devil drives.”

“To laugh is proper to man.”

“Then fail not most carefully to peruse the books of the Greek, Arabian, and Latin physicians, not despising the Talmudists and Cabalists; and by frequent anatomies get thee the perfect knowledge of that other world, called the microcosm, which is man. And at some of the hours of the day apply thy mind to the study of the Holy Scriptures; first, in Greek, the New Testament, with the Epistles of the Apostles;: and then the Old Testament in Hebrew. In brief, let me see thee an abyss and bottomless pit of knowledge; for from henceforward, as thou growest great and becomest a man, thou must part from this tranquillity and rest of study, thou must learn chivalry, warfare, and the exercises of the field, the better thereby to defend my house and our friends, and to succour and protect them at all their needs against the invasion and assaults of evildoers.”

“A good crier of green sauce.”

“I am going to seek a grand perhaps; draw the curtain, the farce is played.”

“Corn is the sinews of war.”

“We will take the good-will for the deed.”

“Comrades, I hear the track and beating of the enemy's horse-feet, and withal perceive that some of them come in a troop and full body against us. Let us rally and close here, then set forward in order, and by this means we shall be able to receive their charge to their loss and our honour.”

“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.”

“He that has patience may compass anything.”

“Do not believe what I tell you here any more than if it were some tale of a tub.”