James Wood, comp. Dictionary of Quotations. 1899.
Rabelais
By robbing Peter he paid Paul … and hoped to catch larks if ever the heavens should fall.
Il faisoit de necessité vertu—He made a virtue of necessity.
Je m’en vais chercher un grand peut-être; tirez le rideau, la farce est jouée—I am going in quest of a great perhaps; let the curtain drop, the farce is played out.On his death-bed.
L’appétit vient en mangeant—Appetite comes with eating, i.e., the more one has, the more one would have.
One half of the world knows not how the other half lives.
Opportunity has hair in front, but is bald behind; if you meet her, seize her by the forelock, for Jove himself cannot catch her again if once let slip.
The devil was sick, the devil a monk would be; / The devil was well, the devil a monk was he.