Quotes from Francois Rabelais

I go to see a Greater Perhaps.

He would flay the fox, say the ape's paternoster, return to his sheep, and turn the hogs to the hay. He would beat the dogs before the lion, put the plough before the oxen, and claw where it did not itch.

Gargantua heaved a deep sigh, and said to those with him: 'This is not the first time that men called to the Gospel faith are persecuted. But happy indeed is he who is not offended and shall always aim at the mark or target that God, by His dear Son, has set up for us, and shall not be distracted or lured aside by his carnal affections.

Science without conscience is only ruin of the soul.

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

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.

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.

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

This is the true nature of gratitude. Time gnaws and diminishes all things, but it increases and adds to our good deeds: anytime we have extended a generous hand to a rational human being, that goodness keeps growing and glowing in the man's heart, forever remembered, constantly contemplated.

Wisdom entereth not into a malicious mind, and science without conscience is but the ruin of the soul.

I am going to seek a grand perhaps; draw the curtain, the farce is played.

Oh thrice and four times happy those who plant cabbages!