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 RABELAISDon’t limp in front of the lame.
More Francois Rabelais Quotes
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Tell the truth and shame the devil.
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I never drink without a thirst, either present or future.
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The farce is finished. I go to seek a vast perhaps.
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Appetite comes with eating.
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When undertaking marriage, everyone must be the judge of his own thoughts, and take counsel from himself.
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I drink for the thirst to come.
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I’d gladly do without a valet. I’m never so well treated as when I’m without a valet.
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In their rules there was only one clause: Do what you will.
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The most Christian France is the sole wet-nurse to the Roman court.
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Frugality is for the vulgar.
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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.
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I owe much; I have nothing; the rest I leave to the poor.
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A certain jollity of mind, pickled in the scorn of fortune.
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I won’t undertake war until I have tried all the arts and means of peace.
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How do you know antiquity was foolish? How do you know the present is wise? Who made it foolish? Who made it wise?
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How shall I be able to rule over others, that have not full power and command of myself?
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I am going to seek a great perhaps.
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A good intention does not mean honor.
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For God, nothing is impossible. And, if he wanted, in the future women would give birth from their ears.
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He who has not an adventure has not horse or mule, so says Solomon.–Who is too adventurous, said Echephron,–loses horse and mule.
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Languages exist by arbitrary institutions and conventions among peoples; words, as the dialecticians tell us, do not signify naturally, but at our pleasure.
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If you want to avoid seeing an idiot, break the mirror.
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The deed will be accomplished with the least amount of bloodshed possible, and, if possible, we’ll save all the souls and send them happily off to their abode.
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There is no truer cause of unhappiness amongst men than, where naturally expecting charity and benevolence, they receive harm and vexation.
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Thought I to myself, we shall never come off scot-free.
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Strike the iron whilst it is hot.
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