Francois Rabelais Quotes

"Tell the truth and shame the devil."
- Francois Rabelais
(Related: Truth, Devil, Shame)

"It is better to write of laughter than of tears, for laughter is the property of man."
- Francois Rabelais
(Related: Laughter, Man, Property, Tears)

"It is my feeling that Time ripens all things; with Time all things are revealed; Time is the father of truth."
- Francois Rabelais
(Related: Time, Father, Truth, Feeling)

"Misery is the company of lawsuits."
- Francois Rabelais
(Related: Company, Misery)

"Nature abhors a vacuum."
- Francois Rabelais
(Related: Nature)

"One falls to the ground in trying to sit on two stools."
- Francois Rabelais
(Related: Trying)

"In their rules there was only one clause: Do what you will."
- Francois Rabelais
(Related: Rules, Will)

"Science without conscience is the death of the soul."
- Francois Rabelais
(Related: Death, Science, Soul, Conscience)

"The farce is finished. I go to seek a vast perhaps."
- 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 bite you; drink always before thirst, and it will never overtake you."
- Francois Rabelais
(Related: Will)

"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."
- Francois Rabelais
(Related: Right)

"The scent of wine, oh how much more agreeable, laughing, praying, celestial and delicious it is than that of oil!"
- Francois Rabelais
(Related: Wine)

"There are more old drunkards than old physicians."
- Francois Rabelais
(Related: Old, Physicians)

"There is no truer cause of unhappiness amongst men than, where naturally expecting charity and benevolence, they receive harm and vexation."
- Francois Rabelais
(Related: Men, Benevolence, Cause, Charity, Harm, Unhappiness)

"Ignorance is the mother of all evils."
- Francois Rabelais
(Related: Mother, Ignorance)

"To good and true love fear is forever affixed."
- Francois Rabelais
(Related: Love, Fear)

"No clock is more regular than the belly."
- Francois Rabelais

"When I drink, I think; and when I think, I drink."
- Francois Rabelais

"When undertaking marriage, everyone must be the judge of his own thoughts, and take counsel from himself."
- Francois Rabelais
(Related: Marriage, Thoughts)

"Time, which wears down and diminishes all things, augments and increases good deeds, because a good turn liberally offered to a reasonable man grows continually through noble thought and memory."
- Francois Rabelais
(Related: Time, Thought, Deeds, Man, Memory)

"Everything comes in time to those who can wait."
- Francois Rabelais
(Related: Time)

"Remove idleness from the world and soon the arts of Cupid would perish."
- Francois Rabelais
(Related: Idleness, World)

"If you wish to avoid seeing a fool you must first break your looking glass."
- Francois Rabelais
(Related: First, Fool)

"A bellyful is a bellyful."
- Francois Rabelais

"A habit does not a monk make."
- Francois Rabelais
(Related: Habit)

"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."
- Francois Rabelais
(Related: Time, Effect, Force, Study)

"Debts and lies are generally mixed together."
- Francois Rabelais
(Related: Lies)

"For he who can wait, everything comes in time."
- Francois Rabelais
(Related: Time)

"Friends, you will notice that in this world there are many more ballocks than men. Remember this."
- Francois Rabelais
(Related: Men, Friends, Will, World)

"From the gut comes the strut, and where hunger reigns, strength abstains."
- Francois Rabelais
(Related: Strength, Hunger)

"Frugality is for the vulgar."
- Francois Rabelais

"I place no hope in my strength, nor in my works: but all my confidence is in God my protector, who never abandons those who have put all their hope and thought in him."
- Francois Rabelais
(Related: God, Thought, Hope, Strength, Confidence)

"Half the world does not know how the other half lives."
- Francois Rabelais
(Related: World)

"How can I govern others, who can't even govern myself?"
- Francois Rabelais

"How do you know antiquity was foolish? How do you know the present is wise? Who made it foolish? Who made it wise?"
- Francois Rabelais
(Related: Present)

"How shall I be able to rule over others, that have not full power and command of myself?"
- Francois Rabelais
(Related: Power)

"I drink no more than a sponge."
- Francois Rabelais

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

"Gestures, in love, are incomparably more attractive, effective and valuable than words."
- Francois Rabelais
(Related: Love, Words)

"Believe me, 'tis a godlike thing to lend; to owe is a heroic virtue."
- Francois Rabelais
(Related: Virtue)

"I won't undertake war until I have tried all the arts and means of peace."
- Francois Rabelais
(Related: Peace, War)

"If the skies fall, one may hope to catch larks."
- Francois Rabelais
(Related: Hope, Larks, May)