“One should never pursue the hazards of fortune to their very ends andit behooves all adventurers to treat their good luck with reverence, neither bothering nor upsetting it.”

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.

Strike the iron whilst it is hot.

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.

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

I drink for the thirst to come.

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

Never did a great man hate good wine.

A good intention does not mean honor.

Appetite comes with eating…..but thirst goes away with drinking.

All’s well in the end, if you’ve only the patience to wait.

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

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.

An old monkey never makes a pretty face.

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

For God, nothing is impossible. And, if he wanted, in the future women would give birth from their ears.

To good and true love, fear is forever affixed.

At some point, it comes to an end regardless, however it comes, whether it is retirement or injury; at some point, it comes to an end.

The end move in politics is always to pick up a gun.

There are some things that you can fulfil with money, but at the end of the day these are not the things that make you happy. It is the small things that make life good.

Each doctor makes a much, much more important job than I do, but at the end, nobody talks about him. We all know about it, but we don’t really think about it.

When any government, or any church for that matter, undertakes to say to its subjects, This you may not read, this you must not see, this you are forbidden to know, the end result is tyranny and oppression no matter how holy the motives.

Nothing. The Infinite knows no time, no space, no great, no small, no beginning, no end.

In this universe the top end is light and the bottom end is real hard stuff.

Where knowledge ends, religion begins.