Francois Rabelais

We will take the good-will for the deed.

— Francois Rabelais

The appetite grows with eating.

— Francois Rabelais

“..to laugh is proper to the man.”

— Francois Rabelais

I am going to seek the great Perhaps.

— Francois Rabelais

Frugality is for the vulgar.

— Francois Rabelais

I drink for the thirst to come.

— Francois Rabelais

Don't limp in front of the lame.

— Francois Rabelais

“I go to see a Greater Perhaps.”

— François Rabelais

Let every one be fully convinced in his own mind.

— Francois Rabelais

I drink eternally. For me it is an eternity of drinking, and a drinking up of eternity.

— Francois Rabelais

Gestures, in love, are incomparably more attractive, effective and valuable than words.

— Francois Rabelais

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

— Francois Rabelais

I'd gladly do without a valet. I'm never so well treated as when I'm without a valet.

— François Rabelais

I never sleep comfortably except when I am at sermon or when I pray to God.

— Francois Rabelais

I never drink without a thirst, either present or future.

— Francois Rabelais

The belly has no ears nor is it to be filled with fair words.

— Francois Rabelais

“Une tête bien faite et une tête bien pleine (kepala yang baik adalah kepala yang penuh dengan ilmu pengetahuan”

— François Rabelais

“Seeing how sorrow eats you, defeats you. I'd rather write about laughing than crying, For laughter makes men human, and courageous.”

— Francois Rabelais

Languages exist by arbitrary institutions and conventions among peoples; words, as the dialecticians tell us, do not signify naturally, but at our…

— Francois Rabelais

It is said, proverbially, that happy is the doctor who is called in when the disease is on its way out.

— Francois Rabelais

The remedy for thirst? It is the opposite of the one for a dog bite: run always after a dog, he'll never…

— Francois Rabelais

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

— Francois Rabelais

War begun without good provision of money beforehand for going through with it is but as a breathing of strength and blast…

— Francois Rabelais

There are more old drunkards than old physicians. [Fr., Il y a plus de vieux ivrongnes qu'il y a de vieux medecins.]

— 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

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

— 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

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

— Francois 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

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

— François 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

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

— 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

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

— 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

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

— Francois 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

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

— François Rabelais

Plain as a nose in a man's face.

— Francois Rabelais

Bring down the curtain, the farce is over

— Francois Rabelais