Francois Rabelais Quotes - Page 6

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

I never drink without a thirst, either present or future.

Nature made the day for exercise, work and seeing to one's business; and ... it provides us with a candle, which is to say the bright and joyous light of the sun.

The most Christian France is the sole wet-nurse to the Roman court.

A crier of green sauce.

I recognize in [my readers] a specific form and individual property, which our predecessors called Pantagruelism, by means of which they never take anything the wrong way that they know to stem from good, honest and loyal hearts.

I drink for the thirst to come.

Let every one be fully convinced in his own mind.

We will take the good-will for the deed.

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

If you say to me: "Master, it would seem that you weren't too terribly wise to have written these bits of nonsense and pleasant mockeries," I respond that you are hardly more so in finding amusement in reading them.

A war undertaken without sufficient monies has but a wisp of force. Coins are the very sinews of battles.

Appetite comes with eating.

Remove idleness from the world and soon the arts of Cupid would perish.

Can there be any greater dotage in the world than for one to guide and direct his courses by the sound of a bell, and not by his own judgment.

A man of good sense always believes what he is told, and what he finds written down.

Ha! for a divine and lordly manor, there is nothing like solid ground.

Between two stools one sits on the ground.

Pantagruel was telling me that he believed the queen had given the symbolic word used among her subjects to denote sovereign good cheer, when she said to her tabachins, A panacea.

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

I am going to seek a great purpose, draw the curtain, the farce is played.

The Lord forbid that I should be out of debt, as if indeed I could not be trusted.

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

I know of a charm by way of a prayer that will preserve a man from the violence of guns and all manner of fire-weapons and engines but it will do me no good because I do not believe it

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.