Cracks Whip Quotes by Francois Rabelais

Time, which wears down and diminishes all things, augments and increases good deeds, because a good turn liberally offered to a reasonable man grows…

— Francois Rabelais

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

— Francois Rabelais

A child is not a vase to be filled, but a fire to be lit.

— Francois Rabelais

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

— Francois Rabelais

Indeed, said the monk, a mass, a matins, and vespers well rung are half-said.

— Francois Rabelais

I do not drink more than a sponge.

— Francois Rabelais

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

— Francois Rabelais

Tell the truth and shame the devil.

— Francois Rabelais

Half the world does not know how the other half lives.

— Francois Rabelais

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

— Francois Rabelais

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

— Francois Rabelais

Science sans conscience n' est que le ruine de l'âme. Knowledge without conscience is but the ruine of the soule.

— Francois Rabelais