“I drink no more than a sponge.”
Francois Rabelais book Gargantua and Pantagruel
Source: Gargantua and Pantagruel (1532–1564), Gargantua (1534), Chapter 5.
“Hence, when these men praised Philip as being more eloquent, more handsome, and to crown all, able to drink more than any one else, Demosthenes sneeringly replied that the first of these qualities was excellent in a sophist, the second in a woman, and the third in a sponge, but that they were none of them such as became a king.”
— Plutarch, book Parallel Lives
Demosthenes, sec. 16
Parallel Lives
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Nymph: But women are more powerful to persuade.”
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