The Lord forbid that I should be out of debt, as if indeed I could not be trusted. — Francois Rabelais Debt Copy Share Image
Do not limp before the lame. [Old Fr., Ne clochez pas devant les boyteus.] — Francois Rabelais Lame Copy Share Image
If you wish to avoid seeing a fool you must first break your looking glass. — Francois Rabelais Fool Copy Share Image
Not everyone is a debtor who wishes to be; not everyone who wishes makes creditors. — Francois Rabelais Creditors Copy Share Image
I won't undertake war until I have tried all the arts and means of peace. — Francois Rabelais Art Copy Share Image
All's well in the end, if you've only the patience to wait. — Francois Rabelais Ends Copy Share Image
A certain jollity of mind, pickled in the scorn of fortune. — Francois Rabelais Certain Copy Share Image
But where are the snows of last year? That was the greatest concern of Villon, the Parisian poet. — Francois Rabelais Concern Copy Share Image
Can there be any greater dotage in the world than for one to guide and direct his courses by the sound of… — Francois Rabelais Bell Copy Share Image
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 Family Copy Share Image
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 Adventure Copy Share Image
Because just as arms have no force outside if there is no counsel within a house, study is vain and counsel useless… — Francois Rabelais Arms Copy Share Image
“Thirst, for who in the time of innocence would have drunk without being athirst? Nay, sir, it was drinking; for privatio praesupponit… — François Rabelais Thirst Copy Share Image
A war undertaken without sufficient monies has but a wisp of force. Coins are the very sinews of battles. — Francois Rabelais Battle Copy Share Image
One should never pursue the hazards of fortune to their very ends andit behooves all adventurers to treat their good luck with… — Francois Rabelais Adventurer Copy Share Image
“I have a remedy against thirst, quite contrary to that which is good against the biting of a mad dog. Keep running… — François Rabelais Thirst Copy Share Image
“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 Lion Copy Share Image
Go, all of you poor people, in the name of God the Creator, and let him forever be your guide. And henceforth,… — Francois Rabelais Apostle paul Copy Share Image
Time, which gnaws and diminisheth all things else, augments and increaseth benefits; because a noble action of liberality, done to a man… — Francois Rabelais Action Copy Share Image
The probity that scintillizes in the superfices of your persons informs my ratiocinating faculty, in a most stupendous manner, of the radiant… — Francois Rabelais Caskets Copy Share Image
I recognize in [my readers] a specific form and individual property, which our predecessors called Pantagruelism, by means of which they never… — Francois Rabelais Books Copy Share Image
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 Absence Copy Share Image
“No hay peor pérdida de tiempo que la de contar las horas ¿que se consigue con eso? Y no hay mayor quimera… — François Rabelais Amor Copy Share Image
“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 Action Copy Share Image
I have already related to you great and admirable things; but, if you might be induced to adventure upon the hazard of… — Francois Rabelais Admirable Copy Share Image
Do you know what Agelisas said, when he was asked why the great city of Lacedomonie was not girded with walls? Because,… — Francois Rabelais Bones Copy Share Image
The age was still dark and reeked of the havoc and misfortunes of the Goths who had put all good literature to… — Francois Rabelais Age Copy Share Image
“...and also celebrate the Skill of the Scythians in that Art, who sent once to Darius King of Persia an Embassador that… — François Rabelais Trash talking Copy Share Image