I owe much; I have nothing; the rest I leave to the poor.
FRANCOIS RABELAISFrugality is for the vulgar.
More Francois Rabelais Quotes
-
-
A child is not a vase to be filled, but a fire to be lit.
FRANCOIS RABELAIS -
Hungry bellies have no ears.
FRANCOIS RABELAIS -
Strike the iron whilst it is hot.
FRANCOIS RABELAIS -
War begun without good provision of money beforehand for going through with it is but as a breathing of strength and blast that will quickly pass away. Coin is the sinews of war.
FRANCOIS RABELAIS -
I urge you to spend your youth profitably in study and virtue…. In brief, let me see in you an abyss of knowledge.
FRANCOIS RABELAIS -
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.
FRANCOIS RABELAIS -
The scent of wine, oh how much more agreeable, laughing, praying, celestial and delicious it is than that of oil!
FRANCOIS RABELAIS -
All’s well in the end, if you’ve only the patience to wait.
FRANCOIS RABELAIS -
There is nothing holy nor sacred to those who have abandoned God and reason in order to follow their perverse desires.
FRANCOIS RABELAIS -
I drink for the thirst to come.
FRANCOIS RABELAIS -
Don’t limp in front of the lame.
FRANCOIS RABELAIS -
The Lord forbid that I should be out of debt, as if indeed I could not be trusted.
FRANCOIS RABELAIS -
Bring down the curtain, the farce is over.
FRANCOIS RABELAIS -
The Devil was sick – the Devil a monk would be, The Devil was well the devil a monk was he.
FRANCOIS RABELAIS -
He who has not an adventure has not horse or mule, so says Solomon.–Who is too adventurous, said Echephron,–loses horse and mule.
FRANCOIS RABELAIS






