François Rabelais quotes

It is better to write of laughter than of tears, for laughter is the property of man. (François Rabelais)
I drink no more than a sponge.
François Rabelais
He that has patience may compass anything.
François Rabelais
Nature abhors a vacuum.
François Rabelais
Everything comes in time to those who can wait.
François Rabelais
If the skies fall, one may hope to catch larks.
François Rabelais
Gestures, in love, are incomparably more attractive, effective and valuable than words.
François Rabelais
I am going to seek a great purpose, draw the curtain, the farce is played.
François Rabelais
So much is a man worth as he esteems himself.
François Rabelais
Corn is the sinews of war.
François Rabelais
Science without conscience is the death of the soul. (François Rabelais)
A crier of green sauce.
François Rabelais
Looking as like ... as one pea does like another.
François Rabelais
Tell the truth and shame the devil.
François Rabelais
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.
François Rabelais
Time, which wears down and diminishes all things, augments and increases good deeds, because a good turn liberally offered to a reasonable man grows continually through noble thought and memory.
François Rabelais
War begun without good provision of money beforehand for going through with it is but as a breathing of strength and blast that will quickly pass away. Coin is the sinews of war.
François Rabelais
Plain as a nose in a man's face.
François Rabelais
From the gut comes the strut, and where hunger reigns, strength abstains.
François Rabelais
We will take the good-will for the deed.
François Rabelais
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. (François Rabelais)
Thought I to myself, we shall never come off scot-free.
François Rabelais
What can't be cured must be endured.
François Rabelais
The Devil was sick,-the Devil a monk would be; The Devil was well,-the devil a monk was he.
François Rabelais
Appetite comes with eating, says Angeston. But the thirst goes away with drinking.
François Rabelais