He that has patience may compass anything.
FRANCOIS RABELAISThe Devil was sick – the Devil a monk would be, The Devil was well the devil a monk was he.
More Francois Rabelais Quotes
-
-
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 -
If the skies fall, one may hope to catch larks.
FRANCOIS RABELAIS -
Believe me, ’tis a godlike thing to lend; to owe is a heroic virtue.
FRANCOIS RABELAIS -
I never sleep comfortably except when I am at sermon or when I pray to God.
FRANCOIS RABELAIS -
Science without conscience is the soul’s perdition.
FRANCOIS RABELAIS -
The farce is finished. I go to seek a vast perhaps.
FRANCOIS RABELAIS -
Tell the truth and shame the devil.
FRANCOIS RABELAIS -
I build only living stones–men.
FRANCOIS RABELAIS -
Friends, you will notice that in this world there are many more ballocks than men. Remember this.
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 -
We will take the good-will for the deed.
FRANCOIS RABELAIS -
It is said, proverbially, that happy is the doctor who is called in when the disease is on its way out.
FRANCOIS RABELAIS -
I never drink without a thirst, either present or future.
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 -
Pantagruel was telling me that he believed the queen had given the symbolic word used among her subjects to denote sovereign good cheer, when she said to her tabachins, A panacea.
FRANCOIS RABELAIS -
From the gut comes the strut, and where hunger reigns, strength abstains.
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 -
An old monkey never makes a pretty face.
FRANCOIS RABELAIS -
Against fortune the carter cracks his whip in vain.
FRANCOIS RABELAIS -
I am going to seek a great perhaps.
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 -
You have no obligation under the sun other than to discover your real needs, to fulfill them, and to rejoice in doing so.
FRANCOIS RABELAIS -
I drink no more than a sponge.
FRANCOIS RABELAIS -
I am going to seek a grand perhaps.
FRANCOIS RABELAIS -
Oh how unhappy is the prince served by such men who are so easily corrupted.
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