Quotes By Francois Rabelais

Gestures, in love, are incomparably more attractive, effective and valuable than words.

How do you know antiquity was foolish? How do you know the present is wise? Who made it foolish? Who made it wise?

Believe me, 'tis a godlike thing to lend; to owe is a heroic virtue.

Tell the truth and shame the devil.

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

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.

I have known many who could not when they would, for they had not done it when they could.

It is better to write of laughter than of tears, for laughter is the property of man.

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.