Francois Rabelais

Bring down the curtain, the farce is over

— Francois Rabelais

Plain as a nose in a man's face.

— Francois Rabelais

“I go to see a Greater Perhaps.”

— François Rabelais

Never did a great man hate good wine.

— Francois Rabelais

No noble man ever hated good wine.

— Francois Rabelais

So much is a man worth as he esteems himself.

— Francois Rabelais

“the wise may be instructed by a fool”

— Francois Rabelais

Debts and lies are generally mixed together.

— Francois Rabelais

The Lord forbid that I should be out of debt, as if indeed I could not be trusted.

— Francois Rabelais

For he who can wait, everything comes in time.

— Francois Rabelais

Do not limp before the lame. [Old Fr., Ne clochez pas devant les boyteus.]

— Francois Rabelais

If you wish to avoid seeing a fool you must first break your looking glass.

— Francois Rabelais

Not everyone is a debtor who wishes to be; not everyone who wishes makes creditors.

— Francois Rabelais

“May the fire of St. Anthony fly up thy fundament.”

— François Rabelais

A certain jollity of mind, pickled in the scorn of fortune.

— Francois Rabelais

The Devil was sick - the Devil a monk would be, The Devil was well the devil a monk was he

— Francois Rabelais

Because just as arms have no force outside if there is no counsel within a house, study is vain and counsel useless…

— Francois Rabelais

Can there be any greater dotage in the world than for one to guide and direct his courses by the sound of…

— Francois Rabelais

But where are the snows of last year? That was the greatest concern of Villon, the Parisian poet.

— Francois Rabelais

If you understand why a monkey in a family is always mocked and harassed, you understand why monks are rejected by all--both…

— Francois Rabelais

He who has not an adventure has not horse or mule, so says Solomon.--Who is too adventurous, said Echephron,--loses horse and mule.

— Francois Rabelais

When undertaking marriage, everyone must be the judge of his own thoughts, and take counsel from himself.

— Francois Rabelais

“Thirst, for who in the time of innocence would have drunk without being athirst? Nay, sir, it was drinking; for privatio praesupponit…

— François Rabelais

I've often heard it said, as the common proverb goes, that a fool can teach a wise man well.

— Francois Rabelais

“I have a remedy against thirst, quite contrary to that which is good against the biting of a mad dog. Keep running…

— François Rabelais

Go, all of you poor people, in the name of God the Creator, and let him forever be your guide. And henceforth,…

— Francois Rabelais

“He would flay the fox, say the ape's paternoster, return to his sheep, and turn the hogs to the hay. He would…

— François Rabelais

Time, which gnaws and diminisheth all things else, augments and increaseth benefits; because a noble action of liberality, done to a man…

— Francois Rabelais

The probity that scintillizes in the superfices of your persons informs my ratiocinating faculty, in a most stupendous manner, of the radiant…

— Francois Rabelais

“No hay peor pérdida de tiempo que la de contar las horas ¿que se consigue con eso? Y no hay mayor quimera…

— François Rabelais

I recognize in [my readers] a specific form and individual property, which our predecessors called Pantagruelism, by means of which they never…

— Francois Rabelais

According to true military art, one should never push one's enemy to the point of despair, because such a state multiplies his…

— Francois Rabelais

“Readers, friends, if you turn these pages Put your prejudice aside, For, really, there's nothing here that's outrageous, Nothing sick, or bad…

— François Rabelais

“Do What Thou Wilt; because men that are free, well-born, well-bred, and conversant in honest companies, have naturally an instinct and spur…

— François Rabelais

I have already related to you great and admirable things; but, if you might be induced to adventure upon the hazard of…

— Francois Rabelais

The age was still dark and reeked of the havoc and misfortunes of the Goths who had put all good literature to…

— Francois Rabelais

Do you know what Agelisas said, when he was asked why the great city of Lacedomonie was not girded with walls? Because,…

— Francois Rabelais

“...and also celebrate the Skill of the Scythians in that Art, who sent once to Darius King of Persia an Embassador that…

— François Rabelais

Between two stools one sits on the ground.

— Francois Rabelais

The appetite grows with eating.

— Francois Rabelais