I have known many who could not when they would, for they had not done it when they could.
FRANCOIS RABELAISScience without conscience is the soul’s perdition.
More Francois Rabelais Quotes
-
-
No noble man ever hated good wine.
FRANCOIS RABELAIS -
A war undertaken without sufficient monies has but a wisp of force. Coins are the very sinews of battles.
FRANCOIS RABELAIS -
When I drink, I think; and when I think, I drink.
FRANCOIS RABELAIS -
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 -
Gestures, in love, are incomparably more attractive, effective and valuable than words.
FRANCOIS RABELAIS -
There are more old drunkards than old physicians.
FRANCOIS RABELAIS -
When undertaking marriage, everyone must be the judge of his own thoughts, and take counsel from himself.
FRANCOIS RABELAIS -
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 -
I never sleep comfortably except when I am at sermon or when I pray to God.
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 -
From the gut comes the strut, and where hunger reigns, strength abstains.
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 -
Appetite comes with eating…..but thirst goes away with drinking.
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