Francois Rabelais

Quotes by Francois Rabelais

• I drink no more than a sponge.

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

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• It is better to write of laughter than of tears, for laughter is the property of man.

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• The remedy for thirst? It is the opposite of the one for a dog bite: run always after a dog, he'll never bite you; drink always before thirst, and it will never overtake you.

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• It is my feeling that Time ripens all things; with Time all things are revealed; Time is the father of truth.

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

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• When undertaking marriage, everyone must be the judge of his own thoughts, and take counsel from himself.

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• There is no truer cause of unhappiness amongst men than, where naturally expecting charity and benevolence, they receive harm and vexation.

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

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• Because just as arms have no force outside if there is no counsel within a house, study is vain and counsel useless that is not put to virtuous effect when the time calls.

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• Frugality is for the vulgar.

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• The right moment wears a full head of hair: when it has been missed, you can't get it back; it's bald in the back of the head and never turns around.

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• The appetite grows by eating.

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• I go to seek a great perhaps.

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• A child is not a vase to be filled, but a fire to be lit.

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• What harm in getting knowledge even from a sot, a pot, a fool, a mitten, or an old slipper?

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• One inch of joy surmounts of grief a span, Because to laugh is proper to the man.

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• Nature abhors a vacuum.

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

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• So much is a man worth as he esteems himself.

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