Gestures, in love, are incomparably more attractive, effective and valuable than words.
FRANCOIS RABELAISDebts and lies are generally mixed together.
More Francois Rabelais Quotes
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Misery is the company of lawsuits.
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A good intention does not mean honor.
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Don’t limp in front of the lame.
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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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The Lord forbid that I should be out of debt, as if indeed I could not be trusted.
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The remedy for thirst? It is the opposite of the one for a dog bite: run always after a dog, he’ll never bite you; drink always before thirst, and it will never overtake you.
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I’ve often heard it said, as the common proverb goes, that a fool can teach a wise man well.
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I never sleep in comfort save when I am hearing a sermon or praying to God.
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Not everyone is a debtor who wishes to be; not everyone who wishes makes creditors.
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An old monkey never makes a pretty face.
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Plain as a nose in a man’s face.
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A child is not a vase to be filled, but a fire to be lit.
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Such is the nature and make-up of the French that they are only good at the start. Then they are worse than devils, but, given time, they’re less than women.
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The most Christian France is the sole wet-nurse to the Roman court.
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From the gut comes the strut, and where hunger reigns, strength abstains.
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Thought I to myself, we shall never come off scot-free.
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A man of good sense always believes what he is told, and what he finds written down.
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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.
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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.
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Wisdom entereth not into a malicious mind.
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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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Strike the iron whilst it is hot.
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I am going to seek a great purpose, draw the curtain, the farce is played.
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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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I have known many who could not when they would, for they had not done it when they could.
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