I urge you to spend your youth profitably in study and virtue…. In brief, let me see in you an abyss of knowledge.
FRANCOIS RABELAISI 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.
More Francois Rabelais Quotes
-
-
If the skies fall, one may hope to catch larks.
FRANCOIS RABELAIS -
Let every one be fully convinced in his own mind.
FRANCOIS RABELAIS -
Friends, you will notice that in this world there are many more ballocks than men. Remember this.
FRANCOIS RABELAIS -
It is better to write of laughter than of tears, for laughter is the property of man.
FRANCOIS RABELAIS -
Believe me, ’tis a godlike thing to lend; to owe is a heroic virtue.
FRANCOIS RABELAIS -
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 -
The scent of wine, oh how much more agreeable, laughing, praying, celestial and delicious it is than that of oil!
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 -
He that has patience may compass anything.
FRANCOIS RABELAIS -
If you want to avoid seeing an idiot, break the mirror.
FRANCOIS RABELAIS -
Early rising is no pleasure; early drinking’s just the measure.
FRANCOIS RABELAIS -
I’d rather write about laughing than crying, For laughter makes men human, and courageous.
FRANCOIS RABELAIS -
Appetite comes with eating…..but thirst goes away with drinking.
FRANCOIS RABELAIS -
In their rules there was only one clause: Do what you will.
FRANCOIS RABELAIS -
I know of a charm by way of a prayer that will preserve a man from the violence of guns and all manner of fire-weapons and engines but it will do me no good because I do not believe it
FRANCOIS RABELAIS