A little rain beats down a big wind. Long drinking bouts break open the tun(der).

If you want to avoid seeing an idiot, break the mirror.

I recognize in [my readers] a specific form and individual property, which our predecessors called Pantagruelism, by means of which they never take anything the wrong way that they know to stem from good, honest and loyal hearts.

I have known many who could not when they would, for they had not done it when they could.

The right moment wears a full head of hair: when it has been missed, you can't get it back; it's bald in the back of the head and never turns around.

I am going to seek a great purpose, draw the curtain, the farce is played.

Remove idleness from the world and soon the arts of Cupid would perish.