Quotes from Francois Rabelais
We always long for the forbidden things, and desire what is denied us
- Francois Rabelais
For he who can wait, everything comes in time.
- Francois Rabelais
A man of good sense always believes what he is told, and what he finds written down.
- Francois Rabelais
Oh how unhappy is the prince served by such men who are so easily corrupted.
- Francois Rabelais
There is nothing holy nor sacred to those who have abandoned God and reason in order to follow their perverse desires.
- Francois Rabelais
If you wish to be good "Pantagruelists" (which is to say, live in peace, joy, health, and always dining well), never put too much faith in people who look out through a hole.
- Francois Rabelais
Pantagruel was telling me that he believed the queen had given the symbolic word used among her subjects to denote sovereign good cheer, when she said to her tabachins, A panacea.
- Francois Rabelais
If you wish to avoid seeing a fool, you must first break your mirror
- Francois Rabelais
The most Christian France is the sole wet-nurse to the Roman court.
- Francois Rabelais
I urge you to spend your youth profitably in study and virtue.... In brief, let me see in you an abyss of knowledge.
- Francois Rabelais
Science sans conscience n' est que le ruine de l'âme. Knowledge without conscience is but the ruine of the soule.
- 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