Words matter. These are the best Francois Rabelais Quotes, and they’re great for sharing with your friends.
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.
We always long for the forbidden things, and desire what is denied us.
Remove idleness from the world and soon the arts of Cupid would perish.
It is my feeling that Time ripens all things; with Time all things are revealed; Time is the father of truth.
It is better to write of laughter than of tears, for laughter is the property of man.
In their rules there was only one clause: Do what you will.
Nature abhors a vacuum.
Science without conscience is the death of the soul.
There is no truer cause of unhappiness amongst men than, where naturally expecting charity and benevolence, they receive harm and vexation.
There are more old drunkards than old physicians.
A habit does not a monk make.
One falls to the ground in trying to sit on two stools.
I drink no more than a sponge.
Debts and lies are generally mixed together.
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.
Ignorance is the mother of all evils.
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.
The farce is finished. I go to seek a vast perhaps.
If the skies fall, one may hope to catch larks.
To good and true love fear is forever affixed.
I have known many who could not when they would, for they had not done it when they could.
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.
Everything comes in time to those who can wait.
The scent of wine, oh how much more agreeable, laughing, praying, celestial and delicious it is than that of oil!
For he who can wait, everything comes in time.
When I drink, I think; and when I think, I drink.
If you wish to avoid seeing a fool you must first break your looking glass.
How shall I be able to rule over others, that have not full power and command of myself?
From the gut comes the strut, and where hunger reigns, strength abstains.
Frugality is for the vulgar.
When undertaking marriage, everyone must be the judge of his own thoughts, and take counsel from himself.
Half the world does not know how the other half lives.
A bellyful is a bellyful.
Gestures, in love, are incomparably more attractive, effective and valuable than words.
I won’t undertake war until I have tried all the arts and means of peace.
Believe me, ’tis a godlike thing to lend; to owe is a heroic virtue.
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.
How can I govern others, who can’t even govern myself?
Tell the truth and shame the devil.
