| Quotes |
Topic |
| Adventure | He who has not an adventure has not horse or mule, so says Solomon.--Who is too adventurous, said Echephron,--loses horse and mule. |
| Appetite | "Appetite comes with eating," says Angeston, "but thirst departs with drinking." |
| Borrowing | Believe me that it is a godlike thing to lend; to owe is a heroic virtue. |
| Choice | Between two stools one sits on the ground. |
| Cities | Petite ville, grand renom. Small town, great renown. |
| Contention | Stir up the hornets. |
| Cookery | A crier of green sauce. |
| Cowards | You are like the eels of Melun; you cry out before you are skinned. |
| Immortality | I am going to seek the great Perhaps. |
| Failure | He beat the bushes without taking the birds. |
| Fleas | Panurge had a flea in his ear. |
| Hunger | Hungry bellies have no cars. |
| Mountains | 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. |
| Order | It is folly to put the plough in front of the oxen. |
| Proverbs | Nature abhors a vacuum. |
| Proverbs | How well I feathered by nest. |
| Proverbs | He did not care a button for it. |
| Proverbs | Strike the iron whilst it is hot. |
| Proverbs | Performed to a T. |
| Proverbs | Make three bites of a cherry. |
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