Francois Rabelais Quotes

A bellyful is a bellyful.
Francois Rabelais

A habit does not a monk make.
Francois Rabelais

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.
Francois Rabelais

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

Debts and lies are generally mixed together.
Francois Rabelais

Everything comes in time to those who can wait.
Francois Rabelais

For he who can wait, everything comes in time.
Francois Rabelais

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

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

Frugality is for the vulgar.
Francois Rabelais

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

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

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

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

How shall I be able to rule over others, that have not full power and command of myself?
Francois Rabelais

I drink no more than a sponge.
Francois Rabelais

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

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.
Francois Rabelais

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

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