Francois Rabelais

Ignorance is the mother of all evils.

— Francois Rabelais

I drink no more than a sponge.

— Francois Rabelais

Hungry bellies have no cars.

— Francois Rabelais

Appetite comes with eating.

— Francois Rabelais

Strike the iron whilst it is hot.

— Francois Rabelais

Nature abhors a vacuum.

— Francois Rabelais

Giving words [is] an act of lovers.

— Francois Rabelais

A habit does not a monk make.

— Francois Rabelais

I'd rather write about laughing than crying, For laughter makes men human, and courageous.

— Francois Rabelais

Keep running after a dog and he will never bite you.

— Francois Rabelais

The farce is finished. I go to seek a vast perhaps.

— Francois Rabelais

I never sleep in comfort save when I am hearing a sermon or praying to God.

— Francois Rabelais

In their rules there was only one clause: Do what you will.

— Francois Rabelais

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

— Francois Rabelais

I have known many who could not when they would, for they had not done it when they could.

— Francois Rabelais

Hungry bellies have no ears. [Fr., La ventre affame n'point d'oreilles.]

— 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

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

You have no obligation under the sun other than to discover your real needs, to fulfill them, and to rejoice in doing…

— Francois Rabelais

Nature made the day for exercise, work and seeing to one's business; and ... it provides us with a candle, which is…

— Francois Rabelais

Bottle, whose Mysterious Deep Do's ten thousand Secrets keep, With attentive Ear I wait; Ease my Mind, and speak my Fate.

— Francois Rabelais

Such is the nature and make-up of the French that they are only good at the start. Then they are worse than…

— Francois Rabelais

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

— Francois Rabelais

When my soul leaves this human dwelling, I will not consider myself to have completely died, but to pass from one state…

— Francois Rabelais

Few and signally blessed are those whom Jupiter has destined to be cabbage-planters. For they've always one foot on the ground andthe…

— Francois 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

“... 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

To laugh is proper to man.

— Francois Rabelais

In this mortal life, nothing is blessed throughout.

— Francois Rabelais

Oh how unhappy is the prince served by such men who are so easily corrupted.

— Francois Rabelais

Believe me, 'tis a godlike thing to lend; to owe is a heroic virtue.

— Francois Rabelais

How shall I be able to rule over others, that have not full power and command of myself?

— Francois Rabelais

Let every one be fully convinced in his own mind.

— Francois Rabelais

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

— Francois Rabelais

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

— François Rabelais

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

— Francois Rabelais

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

— Francois Rabelais

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

— Francois Rabelais