I never sleep in comfort save when I am hearing a sermon or praying to God. — Francois Rabelais Comfort Copy Share Image
Parisians are so besotted, so silly and so naturally inept that a street player, a seller of indulgences, a mule with its… — Francois Rabelais Crossroads Copy Share Image
There is no truer cause of unhappiness amongst men than, where naturally expecting charity and benevolence, they receive harm and vexation. — Francois Rabelais Benevolence Copy Share Image
From the gut comes the strut, and where hunger reigns, strength abstains. — Francois Rabelais Hunger 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
“No hay peor pérdida de tiempo que la de contar las horas ¿que se consigue con eso? Y no hay mayor quimera… — François Rabelais 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
Bottle, whose Mysterious Deep Do's ten thousand Secrets keep, With attentive Ear I wait; Ease my Mind, and speak my Fate. — Francois Rabelais Bottles Copy Share Image
There is nothing holy nor sacred to those who have abandoned God and reason in order to follow their perverse desires. — Francois Rabelais Abandoned Copy Share Image
It is my feeling that Time ripens all things; with Time all things are revealed; Time is the father of truth. — Francois Rabelais All things 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
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 right moment wears a full head of hair: when it has been missed, you can't get it back; it's bald in… — Francois Rabelais Hair 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
Pantagruel was telling me that he believed the queen had given the symbolic word used among her subjects to denote sovereign good… — Francois Rabelais Cheer Copy Share Image
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 Amusement Copy Share Image
For God, nothing is impossible. And, if he wanted, in the future women would give birth from their ears. — Francois Rabelais Birth Copy Share Image
Remove idleness from the world and soon the arts of Cupid would perish. — Francois Rabelais Art Copy Share Image
