Quotes By Francois Rabelais

The right moment wears a full head of hair: when it has been missed, you can't get it back; it's bald in the back of the head and never turns around.

I drink no more than a sponge.

There are more old drunkards than old physicians.

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

If you wish to avoid seeing a fool you must first break your looking glass.

When I drink, I think; and when I think, I drink.

Frugality is for the vulgar.

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

It is my feeling that Time ripens all things; with Time all things are revealed; Time is the father of truth.

How shall I be able to rule over others, that have not full power and command of myself?

A habit does not a monk make.

Misery is the company of lawsuits.

From the gut comes the strut, and where hunger reigns, strength abstains.

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.

No clock is more regular than the belly.

Nature abhors a vacuum.

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.

Half the world does not know how the other half lives.

For he who can wait, everything comes in time.

The farce is finished. I go to seek a vast perhaps.

I won't undertake war until I have tried all the arts and means of peace.

If the skies fall, one may hope to catch larks.

Ignorance is the mother of all evils.

To good and true love fear is forever affixed.

The scent of wine, oh how much more agreeable, laughing, praying, celestial and delicious it is than that of oil!

Debts and lies are generally mixed together.

Friends, you will notice that in this world there are many more ballocks than men. Remember this.

Science without conscience is the death of the soul.

We always long for the forbidden things, and desire what is denied us.

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.