Francois Rabelais

I drink for the thirst to come.

— Francois Rabelais

Frugality is for the vulgar.

— Francois Rabelais

Wisdom entereth not into a malicious mind.

— Francois Rabelais

A bellyful is a bellyful.

— Francois Rabelais

I am going to seek a great perhaps.

— Francois Rabelais

An old monkey never makes a pretty face.

— Francois Rabelais

I do not drink more than a sponge.

— Francois Rabelais

I am going to seek a grand perhaps.

— Francois Rabelais

The Devil was sick - the Devil a monk would be, The Devil was well the devil a monk was he

— Francois Rabelais

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

— Francois Rabelais

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

— Francois Rabelais

Everything comes in time to those who can wait.

— Francois Rabelais

From the gut comes the strut, and where hunger reigns, strength abstains.

— Francois Rabelais

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

— 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

I've often heard it said, as the common proverb goes, that a fool can teach a wise man well.

— 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

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

— 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

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

— Francois Rabelais

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

— 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

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

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

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 say and maintain, that of all torcheculs, arsewisps, bumfodders, tail-napkins, bunghole cleansers, and wipe-breeches, there is none in the world…

— François Rabelais

I know of a charm by way of a prayer that will preserve a man from the violence of guns and all…

— Francois Rabelais

Death is the vast perhaps.

— Francois Rabelais

Misery is the company of lawsuits.

— Francois Rabelais

Tell the truth and shame the devil.

— Francois Rabelais

Giving words [is] an act of lovers.

— Francois Rabelais

A habit does not a monk make.

— Francois Rabelais

To laugh is proper to man.

— Francois Rabelais

Nature abhors a vacuum.

— Francois Rabelais

I build only living stones--men.

— Francois Rabelais