John Bartlett (1820–1905). Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. 1919.
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| François Rabelais. (c. 1490–1553) (continued) |
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| Like hearts of oak. 1 |
| Works. The Author’s Prologue to the Fifth Book. |
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| You shall never want rope enough. |
| Works. The Author’s Prologue to the Fifth Book. |
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| Looking as like … as one pea does like another. 2 |
| Works. Book v. Chap. ii. |
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| Nothing is so dear and precious as time. 3 |
| Works. Book v. Chap. v. |
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| And thereby hangs a tale. 4 |
| Works. Book v. Chap. iv. |
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| It is meat, drink, 5 and cloth to us. |
| Works. Book v. Chap. vii. |
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| And so on to the end of the chapter. |
| Works. Book v. Chap. x. |
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| What is got over the Devil’s back is spent under the belly. 6 |
| Works. Book v. Chap. xi. |
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| We have here other fish to fry. 7 |
| Works. Book v. Chap. xii. |
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| What cannot be cured must be endured. 8 |
| Works. Book v. Chap. xv. |
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| Thought I to myself, we shall never come off scot-free. |
| Works. Book v. Chap. xv. |
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| It is enough to fright you out of your seven senses. 9 |
| Works. Book v. Chap. xv. |
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| Necessity has no law. 10 |
| Works. Book v. Chap. xv. |
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| Panurge had no sooner heard this, but he was upon the high-rope. |
| Works. Book v. Chap. xviii. |
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| We saw a knot of others, about a baker’s dozen. |
| Works. Book v. Chap. xxii. |
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| Others made a virtue of necessity. 11 |
| Works. Book v. Chap. xxii. |
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| Spare your breath to cool your porridge. 12 |
| Works. Book v. Chap. xxviii. |
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| I believe he would make three bites of a cherry. |
| Works. Book v. Chap. xxviii. |
| Note 1. See Garrick, Quotation 6. [back] |
| Note 2. See Lyly, Quotation 16. [back] |
| Note 3. See Franklin, Quotation 16. Also Diogenes Laertius, Quotation 59. [back] |
| Note 4. See Shakespeare, As You Like It, Quotation 26. [back] |
| Note 5. See Shakespeare, As You Like It, Quotation 64. [back] |
| Note 6. Isocrates was in the right to insinuate that what is got over the Devil’s back is spent under his belly.—Alain René Le Sage: Gil Blas, book viii. chap. ix. [back] |
| Note 7. I have other fish to fry.—Cervantes: Don Quixote, part ii. chap. xxxv. [back] |
| Note 8. See Burton, Quotation 56. [back] |
| Note 9. See Scott, Quotation 62. [back] |
| Note 10. See Shakespeare, Julius Cæsar, Quotation 63. [back] |
| Note 11. See Chaucer, Quotation 22. [back] |
| Note 12. See Plutarch, Quotation 139. [back] |