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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…“

“You have there hit the nail on the head.”

“Let us fly and save our bacon.”

“In all companies there are more fools than wise men, and the greater part always gets the better of the wiser.”

“I would have you call to mind the strength of the ancient giants, that undertook to lay the high mountain Pelion on the top of Ossa, and set among those the shady Olympus.”

“What cannot be cured must be endured.”

“I drink no more than a sponge.”

“What is got over the Devil's back is spent under the belly.”

“Scampering as if the Devil drove them.”

“We saw a knot of others, about a baker's dozen.”

“You are Christians of the best edition, all picked and culled.”

“Necessity has no law.”

“Above the pitch, out of tune, and off the hinges.”

“Pantagruel was telling me that he believed the queen had given the symbolic word used among her subjects to denote sovereign good cheer, when she said to her tabachins, A panacea.”

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

“This flea which I have in mine ear.”

“The Devil was sick,—the Devil a monk would be;
The Devil was well,—the devil a monk was he.”

“It becomes you to be wise to smell, feel, and have in estimation these fair books, de haulte gresse, light in the pursuit, and bold at the encounter. Then you must, by a curious reading and frequent meditation, break the bone and suck out the substantific marrow, — that is what I mean by these Pythagorean symbols, — with assured hope of becoming well-advised and valiant by the said reading; for in it you shall find another kind of taste, and a doctrine more profound, which will disclose unto you deep doctrines and dreadful mysteries, as well in what concerneth our religion as matters of the public state and life economical.”

“You shall never want rope enough.”

“I believe he would make three bites of a cherry.”

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

“What do you say? cried they; do you call it Entelechy or Endelechy? Truly, truly, sweet cousins, quoth Panurge, we are a silly sort of grout-headed lobcocks, an't please you; be so kind as to forgive us if we chance to knock words out of joint. As for anything else, we are downright honest fellows and true hearts.”

“The belly has no ears nor is it to be filled with fair words.”

“Send them home as merry as crickets.”

“Thought I to myself, we shall never come off scot-free.”

“Spare your breath to cool your porridge.”

“War begun without good provision of money beforehand for going through with it is but as a breathing of strength and blast that will quickly pass away. Coin is the sinews of war.”

“Appetite comes with eating, says Angeston. But the thirst goes away with drinking.”

“Thought the moon was made of green cheese.”

“He laid him squat as a flounder.”