Quotes By Francois Rabelais

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

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.

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.

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

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

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.

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

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

Ignorance is the mother of all evils.

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.

Frugality is for the vulgar.

Debts and lies are generally mixed together.

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

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

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

Misery is the company of lawsuits.

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

There is no truer cause of unhappiness amongst men than, where naturally expecting charity and benevolence, they receive harm and vexation.

Remove idleness from the world and soon the arts of Cupid would perish.

How can I govern others, who can't even govern myself?

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.

For he who can wait, everything comes in time.

Tell the truth and shame the devil.

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

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

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

To good and true love fear is forever affixed.