Quotes of Francois Rabelais - somelinesforyou

“ So much is a man worth as he esteems himself. ”

- Francois Rabelais

“ A child is not a vase to be filled, but a fire to be lit. ”

- Francois Rabelais

“ Time ripens all things; with time all things are revealed; time is the father of truth. ”

- Francois Rabelais

“ To good and true love fear is forever affixed. ”

- Francois Rabelais

“ All’s well in the end, if only you’ve the patience to wait. ”

- Francois Rabelais

“ I go to seek a Great Perhaps. ”

- Francois Rabelais

“ I go to seek a Great Perhaps. ”

- Francois Rabelais

“ Science without conscience is the soul's perdition. ”

- Francois Rabelais

“ High and mighty guzzlers, and you, O all you precious poxridden—while you have the leisure and I have nothing else more important to do, let me ask you a question: why does everybody say, as if it were proverbially true, that the world is no longer flat? Understand, please, that "flat" here means "without zest, unsalted, insipid, washedout": taking it metaphorically, it signifies "crazy, foolish, senseless, rotbrained." Would you argue, as indeed one might logically infer, that if we say that the world has been flat, now we have to say that it's become wise? What was it that made it flat? Why was it flat? Why should it be wise? What do you think ancient stupidity was? What do you think constitutes our present wisdom? What made it flat? What has made it wise? Are there more lovers of flatness or more lovers of wisdom? Just exactly when was it flat? Just exactly when was it wise? Who's responsible for that earlier flatness? Who's responsible for that later wisdom? Why did that ancient flatness end right now, and not at some other time? Why did our present wisdom begin right now, and not sooner? What harm did our earlier flatness do us? What good is this new wisdom? How did we get rid of our ancient flatness? How was our present wisdom brought about? ”

- Francois Rabelais

“ He who has not an adventure has not horse or mule, so says Solomon. — Who is too adventurous, said Echephron, — loses horse and mule. ”

- Francois Rabelais

“ Strength avails not a coward. ”

- Francois Rabelais

“ Strength avails not a coward. ”

- Francois Rabelais

“ Panurge had a flea in his ear. ”

- Francois Rabelais

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

- Francois Rabelais

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

- Francois Rabelais

“ He did not care a button for it. ”

- Francois Rabelais

“ We always long for forbidden things, k and desire what is denied us. ”

- Francois Rabelais

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

- Francois Rabelais

“ He did not care a button for it. ”

- Francois Rabelais

“ Stir up the hornets. ”

- Francois Rabelais

“ Panurge had a flea in his ear. ”

- Francois Rabelais

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

- Francois Rabelais

“ Draw the curtain, the fraud is over. ”

- Francois Rabelais

“ Hungry bellies have no cars. ”

- Francois Rabelais

“ No clock is more regular than the belly. ”

- Francois Rabelais

“ But where are the snows of last year? That was the greatest concern of Villon, the Parisian poet. ”

- Francois Rabelais

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

- Francois Rabelais

“ Debts and lies are generally mixed together. ”

- Francois Rabelais

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

- Francois Rabelais

“ A crier of green sauce. ”

- Francois Rabelais
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