Francois Rabelais Quotes - Page 4

He that has patience may compass anything.

If you understand why a monkey in a family is always mocked and harassed, you understand why monks are rejected by all--both old and young.

To good and true love, fear is forever affixed.

There are more old drunkards than old physicians.

Friends, you will notice that in this world there are many more ballocks than men. Remember this.

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

Science sans conscience n' est que le ruine de l'âme. Knowledge without conscience is but the ruine of the soule.

Death is the vast perhaps.

When my soul leaves this human dwelling, I will not consider myself to have completely died, but to pass from one state to another, given that, in you and by you, I remain in my visible image in this world.

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.

Gargantua, at the age of four hundred four score and forty- four years begat his son Pantagruel, from his wife, named Badebec, daughter of the King of the Amaurotes in Utopia, who died in child-birth: because he was marvelously huge and so heavy that he could not come to light without suffocating his mother.

The scent of wine, oh how much more agreeable, laughing, praying, celestial and delicious it is than that of oil!

I am going to seek a grand perhaps.

The deed will be accomplished with the least amount of bloodshed possible, and, if possible ..., we'll save all the souls and send them happily off to their abode.

Wait a second while I take a swig off this bottle: it's my true and only Helicon, my Caballine fount, my sole Enthusiasm. Here, drinking, I deliberate, I reason, I resolve and conclude. After the epilogue I laugh, I write, I compose, I drink. Ennius drinking would write, writing would drink.

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

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

Of a young hermit, an old devil. [Fr., De jeune hermite, vieil diable.]

The appetite grows with eating.

Because, according to the sage Solomon, wisdom does not enter into a soul that seeks after evil, and knowledge without conscienceis the ruin of the soul, it behooves you to serve, love and fear God and to put all your thoughts and hope in him, and by faith founded in charity, be joined to him, such that you never be separated from him by sin.

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

Not everyone is a debtor who wishes to be; not everyone who wishes makes creditors.

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.

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

If in your soil it takes, to heaven A thousand thousand thanks be given; And say with France, it goodly goes, Where the Pantagruelion grows.