Francois Rabelais Quotes

Giving words is an act of lovers.

I drink eternally. For me it is an eternity of drinking, and a drinking up of eternity.

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.

A certain jollity of mind, pickled in the scorn of fortune.

In their rules there was only one clause: Do what you will.

Can there be any greater dotage in the world than for one to guide and direct his courses by the sound of a bell, and not by his own judgment.

Strike the iron whilst it is hot.

Nature made the day for exercise, work and seeing to one’s business; and … it provides us with a candle, which is to say the bright and joyous light of the sun.

I drink for the thirst to come.

When undertaking marriage, everyone must be the judge of his own thoughts, and take counsel from himself.