“Appetite comes with eating.”

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

Plain as a nose in a man’s face.

If you wish to be good “Pantagruelists” (which is to say, live in peace, joy, health, and always dining well), never put too much faith in people who look out through a hole.

I never sleep comfortably except when I am at sermon or when I pray to God.

He that has patience may compass anything.

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

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

We always long for the forbidden things, and desire what is denied us.

There are more old drunkards than old physicians.

To laugh is proper to man.

Of a young hermit, an old devil.

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

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.

In this mortal life, nothing is blessed throughout.

If you want to avoid seeing an idiot, break the mirror.

A habit does not a monk make.

The persistent appetite for human beings for community is what we should all be dedicated to.

I try to feed my hunger rather than my appetite.

Money brings you food, but not appetite; medicine, but not health; acquaintances, but not friends.

The savage god of the Mexicans cannot be satisfied without thousands of mortals which are immolated to his sanguinary appetite.

Collecting is like sex; satisfaction renews and creates new appetites.

The appetite for power is old and irrepressible in humankind, and in its action almost always destructive.

We controlled neither appetite nor violence; we did not adapt. We destroyed ourselves. But we destroyed the world first.

Sex is as important as eating or drinking and we ought to allow the one appetite to be satisfied with as little restraint or false modesty as the other.