If you want to avoid seeing an idiot, break the mirror.
FRANCOIS RABELAISWhen my soul leaves this human dwelling, I will not consider myself to have completely died, but to pass from one state to another, given that, in you and by you, I remain in my visible image in this world.
More Francois Rabelais Quotes
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The Devil was sick – the Devil a monk would be, The Devil was well the devil a monk was he.
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Frugality is for the vulgar.
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The scent of wine, oh how much more agreeable, laughing, praying, celestial and delicious it is than that of oil!
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I won’t undertake war until I have tried all the arts and means of peace.
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He that has patience may compass anything.
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It is my feeling that Time ripens all things; with Time all things are revealed; Time is the father of truth.
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Half the world does not know how the other half lives.
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Indeed, said the monk, a mass, a matins, and vespers well rung are half-said.
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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
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The appetite grows with eating.
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Keep running after a dog and he will never bite you.
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No noble man ever hated good wine.
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It’s a shame to be called “educated” those who do not study the ancient Greek writers.
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To good and true love, fear is forever affixed.
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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.
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