Francois Rabelais

“..to laugh is proper to the man.”

— Francois Rabelais

I am going to seek the great Perhaps.

— Francois Rabelais

We will take the good-will for the deed.

— Francois Rabelais

I drink for the thirst to come.

— Francois Rabelais

Don't limp in front of the lame.

— Francois Rabelais

Frugality is for the vulgar.

— Francois Rabelais

A bellyful is a bellyful.

— Francois Rabelais

Wisdom entereth not into a malicious mind.

— Francois Rabelais

Thought I to myself, we shall never come off scot-free.

— Francois Rabelais

I won't undertake war until I have tried all the arts and means of peace.

— Francois Rabelais

All's well in the end, if you've only the patience to wait.

— Francois Rabelais

If you wish to avoid seeing a fool, you must break your mirror.

— Francois Rabelais

Without health, life is not life; it is only a state of languor and suffering.

— Francois Rabelais

The most Christian France is the sole wet-nurse to the Roman court.

— Francois Rabelais

Ha! for a divine and lordly manor, there is nothing like solid ground.

— Francois Rabelais

The dress does not make the monk. [Fr., L'habit ne fait le moine.]

— Francois Rabelais

“Si vous faîtes attention aux signes, quand donc ferez vous attention à ce qu'ils signifient? If you pay attention to the signs,…

— François Rabelais

Against fortune the carter cracks his whip in vain. [Fr., Centre fortune, la diverse un chartier rompit nazardes son fouet.]

— Francois Rabelais

If in your soil it takes, to heaven A thousand thousand thanks be given; And say with France, it goodly goes, Where…

— Francois Rabelais

A war undertaken without sufficient monies has but a wisp of force. Coins are the very sinews of battles.

— Francois Rabelais

One should never pursue the hazards of fortune to their very ends andit behooves all adventurers to treat their good luck with…

— Francois Rabelais

There is nothing holy nor sacred to those who have abandoned God and reason in order to follow their perverse desires.

— Francois Rabelais

How do you know antiquity was foolish? How do you know the present is wise? Who made it foolish? Who made it…

— Francois Rabelais

Pantagruelism is a certain gaitey of the spirit consisting in a disdain for the hazards of fortune.

— Francois Rabelais

So that we may not be like the Athenians, who never consulted except after the event done. [Fr., Afin que ne semblons…

— Francois Rabelais

It is quite a common and vulgar thing among humans to understand, foresee, know and predict the troubles of others. But oh…

— Francois Rabelais

If you say to me: "Master, it would seem that you weren't too terribly wise to have written these bits of nonsense…

— Francois Rabelais

Wait a second while I take a swig off this bottle: it's my true and only Helicon, my Caballine fount, my sole…

— Francois Rabelais

Always open all gates and roads to your enemies, and rather make for them a bridge of silver, to get rid of…

— Francois Rabelais

Parisians are so besotted, so silly and so naturally inept that a street player, a seller of indulgences, a mule with its…

— Francois Rabelais

All things have their ends and cycles. And when they have reached their highest point, they are in their lowest ruin, for…

— Francois Rabelais

What harm in learning and getting knowledge even from a sot, a pot, a fool, a mitten, or a slipper. [Fr., Que…

— Francois Rabelais

I do not drink more than a sponge.

— Francois Rabelais

I am going to seek a great perhaps.

— Francois Rabelais

An old monkey never makes a pretty face.

— Francois Rabelais

Tell the truth and shame the devil.

— Francois Rabelais

Death is the vast perhaps.

— Francois Rabelais

Misery is the company of lawsuits.

— Francois Rabelais

I am going to seek a grand perhaps.

— Francois Rabelais

Machination is worth more than force.

— Francois Rabelais