Top 162 Quotes & Sayings by Francois Rabelais
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Last updated on December 21, 2024.
Everything comes in time to those who can wait.
The scent of wine, oh how much more agreeable, laughing, praying, celestial and delicious it is than that of oil!
How can I govern others, who can't even govern myself?
It is my feeling that Time ripens all things; with Time all things are revealed; Time is the father of truth.
I have known many who could not when they would, for they had not done it when they could.
I place no hope in my strength, nor in my works: but all my confidence is in God my protector, who never abandons those who have put all their hope and thought in him.
I won't undertake war until I have tried all the arts and means of peace.
Debts and lies are generally mixed together.
A bellyful is a bellyful.
There is no truer cause of unhappiness amongst men than, where naturally expecting charity and benevolence, they receive harm and vexation.
Gestures, in love, are incomparably more attractive, effective and valuable than words.
Nature abhors a vacuum.
Because just as arms have no force outside if there is no counsel within a house, study is vain and counsel useless that is not put to virtuous effect when the time calls.
Tell the truth and shame the devil.
Ignorance is the mother of all evils.
From the gut comes the strut, and where hunger reigns, strength abstains.
Time, which wears down and diminishes all things, augments and increases good deeds, because a good turn liberally offered to a reasonable man grows continually through noble thought and memory.
If the skies fall, one may hope to catch larks.
It is better to write of laughter than of tears, for laughter is the property of man.
To good and true love fear is forever affixed.
No clock is more regular than the belly.
Friends, you will notice that in this world there are many more ballocks than men. Remember this.
The farce is finished. I go to seek a vast perhaps.
There are more old drunkards than old physicians.
For he who can wait, everything comes in time.
The remedy for thirst? It is the opposite of the one for a dog bite: run always after a dog, he'll never bite you; drink always before thirst, and it will never overtake you.
When I drink, I think; and when I think, I drink.
We always long for the forbidden things, and desire what is denied us.
Science without conscience is the death of the soul.
In their rules there was only one clause: Do what you will.
I drink no more than a sponge.
When undertaking marriage, everyone must be the judge of his own thoughts, and take counsel from himself.
How shall I be able to rule over others, that have not full power and command of myself?
Frugality is for the vulgar.
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.
One falls to the ground in trying to sit on two stools.
A habit does not a monk make.
Believe me, 'tis a godlike thing to lend; to owe is a heroic virtue.
Misery is the company of lawsuits.
How do you know antiquity was foolish? How do you know the present is wise? Who made it foolish? Who made it wise?
If you wish to avoid seeing a fool you must first break your looking glass.
Remove idleness from the world and soon the arts of Cupid would perish.
Half the world does not know how the other half lives.
I am going to seek a great perhaps.
According to true military art, one should never push one's enemy to the point of despair, because such a state multiplies his strength and increases his courage which had already been crushed and failing, and because there is no better remedy for the health of beaten and overwhelmed men than the absence of all hope.
Keep running after a dog and he will never bite you.
For God, nothing is impossible. And, if he wanted, in the future women would give birth from their ears.
So much is a man worth as he esteems himself.
I'd rather write about laughing than crying, For laughter makes men human, and courageous.
Science without conscience is the soul's perdition.
All's well in the end, if you've only the patience to wait.
A child is not a vase to be filled, but a fire to be lit.
What harm in learning and getting knowledge even from a sot, a pot, a fool, a mitten, or a slipper.
[Fr., Que nuist savoir tousjours et tousjours apprendre, fust ce
D'un sot, d'une pot, d'une que--doufle
D'un mouffe, d'un pantoufle.]
It's a shame to be called "educated" those who do not study the ancient Greek writers.
You have no obligation under the sun other than to discover your real needs, to fulfill them, and to rejoice in doing so.
If the head is lost, all that perishes is the individual; if the balls are lost, all of human nature perishes.
No noble man ever hated good wine.
An old monkey never makes a pretty face.
If you wish to avoid seeing a fool, you must first break your mirror
Appetite comes with eating.....but thirst goes away with drinking.
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