Francois Rabelais Quotes

Bring down the curtain, the farce is over.

We will take the good-will for the deed.

I’d rather write about laughing than crying, For laughter makes men human, and courageous.

If in your soil it takes, to heaven A thousand thousand thanks be given; And say with France, it goodly goes, Where the Pantagruelion grows.

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.

I am going to seek a great perhaps.

One falls to the ground in trying to sit on two stools.

It is said, proverbially, that happy is the doctor who is called in when the disease is on its way out.

Science without conscience is the soul’s perdition.

The belly has no ears nor is it to be filled with fair words.