Indeed, said the monk, a mass, a matins, and vespers well rung are half-said. — Francois Rabelais Copy Share Image
The dress does not make the monk. [Fr., L'habit ne fait le moine.] — Francois Rabelais Copy Share Image
The Devil was sick - the Devil a monk would be, The Devil was well the devil a monk was he — Francois Rabelais Copy Share Image
How comes it that you curse, Frere Jean? It's only, said the monk, in order to embellish my language. They are the… — Francois Rabelais 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 Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
Indeed, said the monk, a mass, a matins, and vespers well rung are half-said. — Francois Rabelais 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 take anything… — Francois Rabelais Copy Share Image
But where are the snows of last year? That was the greatest concern of Villon, the Parisian poet. — Francois Rabelais Copy Share Image
The Lord forbid that I should be out of debt, as if indeed I could not be trusted. — Francois Rabelais Copy Share Image
Science sans conscience n' est que le ruine de l'âme. Knowledge without conscience is but the ruine of the soule. — Francois Rabelais Copy Share Image