black
grey
blue
red
brown
white

Thought I to myself, we shall never come off scot-free.

Francois Rabelais

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

Around Head Missing Moments Right
A man of good sense always believes what he is told, and what he finds written down.
FRANCOIS RABELAIS

Believe Goodness Himself Man Writing
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

Confidence Himself Hope Place Strength Thinking
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.
FRANCOIS RABELAIS

Abuse Family Old Rejection Understand Young Yourself
Such is the nature and make-up of the French that they are only good at the start. Then they are worse than devils, but, given time, they’re less than women.
FRANCOIS RABELAIS

Goodness Make Up Nature Start Woman
Debts and lies are generally mixed together.
FRANCOIS RABELAIS

Lying Togetherness
The most Christian France is the sole wet-nurse to the Roman court.
FRANCOIS RABELAIS

Court France Nurse
I’d rather write about laughing than crying, For laughter makes men human, and courageous.
FRANCOIS RABELAIS

Courage Cry Human Laughter Man Writing
A little rain beats down a big wind. Long drinking bouts break open the tunder.
FRANCOIS RABELAIS

Drink Rain Wind
There is nothing holy nor sacred to those who have abandoned God and reason in order to follow their perverse desires.
FRANCOIS RABELAIS

Abandonment Desire Holy Pervert Sacred
Science without conscience is the soul’s perdition.
FRANCOIS RABELAIS

Conscience Science Soul
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.
FRANCOIS RABELAIS

Greatness Guide Himself Judgement Sound World
Wisdom entereth not into a malicious mind.
FRANCOIS RABELAIS

Mindset Wisdom
Ignorance is the mother of all evils.
FRANCOIS RABELAIS

Evil Ignorance Mother
There are more old drunkards than old physicians.
FRANCOIS RABELAIS

Anand Thakur
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

Knowledge Myself Profit Study Virtue Youth
Early rising is no pleasure; early drinking’s just the measure.
FRANCOIS RABELAIS

Drinking Measurement Pleasure Rise
I drink for the thirst to come.
FRANCOIS RABELAIS

Drink Myself Thirst
Nature abhors a vacuum.
FRANCOIS RABELAIS

Nature One Liner
One falls to the ground in trying to sit on two stools.
FRANCOIS RABELAIS

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

Born Future God Impossible Woman
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

Adventure Bother End Fortune Pursue Upset
I never sleep comfortably except when I am at sermon or when I pray to God.
FRANCOIS RABELAIS

Anand Thakur
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

Animal Bite Dog Thirst Water Yourself
A certain jollity of mind, pickled in the scorn of fortune.
FRANCOIS RABELAIS

Fortune Mindset Scorn
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

Foolish Present Wisdom
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.
FRANCOIS RABELAIS

Anand Thakur

Thought I to myself, we shall never come off scot-free.

Related Topics

Popular Authors

Thought I to myself, we shall never come off scot-free.

Related Topics

Popular Authors

More Francois Rabelais Quotes