Francois Rabelais
24 quotes
Biography
"If the skies fall, one may hope to catch larks."
"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."
"To good and true love fear is forever affixed."
"Gestures, in love, are incomparably more attractive, effective and valuable than words."
"Science without conscience is the death of the soul."
"Misery is the company of lawsuits."
"When undertaking marriage, everyone must be the judge of his own thoughts, and take counsel from himself."
"I won't undertake war until I have tried all the arts and means of peace."
"How shall I be able to rule over others, that have not full power and command of myself?"
"Science without conscience is the death of the soul."
"From the gut comes the strut, and where hunger reigns, strength abstains."
"It is my feeling that Time ripens all things with Time all things are revealed Time is the father of truth."
"Everything comes in time to those who can wait."
"It is my feeling that Time ripens all things with Time all things are revealed Time is the father of truth."
"Tell the truth and shame the devil."
"I won't undertake war until I have tried all the arts and means of peace."
"We always long for forbidden things k and desire what is denied us."
"He replies nothing but monosyllables. I believe he would make three bites of a cherry."
"There are more old drunkards than old physicians."
"If you wish to avoid seeing a fool you must first break your looking-glass."
"Then I began to think that it is very true which is commonly said that the one-half of the world knoweth not how the other half liveth."
"I never sleep comfortably except when I am at sermon or when I pray to God."
"I never sleep in comfort save when I am hearing a sermon or praying to God."
"Half the world does not know how the other half lives."