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 RABELAISEarly rising is no pleasure; early drinking’s just the measure.
More Francois Rabelais Quotes
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Appetite comes with eating.
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We always long for the forbidden things, and desire what is denied us.
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I am going to seek a great purpose, draw the curtain, the farce is played.
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Of a young hermit, an old devil.
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I won’t undertake war until I have tried all the arts and means of peace.
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But where are the snows of last year? That was the greatest concern of Villon, the Parisian poet.
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I build only living stones–men.
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A war undertaken without sufficient monies has but a wisp of force. Coins are the very sinews of battles.
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Because just as arms have no force outside if there is no counsel within a house, study is vain and counsel useless that is not put to virtuous effect when the time calls.
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Pantagruelism is a certain gaitey of the spirit consisting in a disdain for the hazards of fortune.
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We will take the good-will for the deed.
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One falls to the ground in trying to sit on two stools.
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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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An old monkey never makes a pretty face.
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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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