Quotes from Francois Rabelais

Frugality is for the vulgar.

For he who can wait, everything comes in time.

No noble man ever hated good wine.

Never did a great man hate good wine.

A man of good sense always believes what he is told, and what he finds written down.

Oh how unhappy is the prince served by such men who are so easily corrupted.

Ignorance is the mother of all evils.

Nature abhors a vacuum.

All's well in the end, if you've only the patience to wait.

There is nothing holy nor sacred to those who have abandoned God and reason in order to follow their perverse desires.

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.

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.

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

If you wish to avoid seeing a fool, you must first break your mirror

In their rules there was only one clause: Do what you will.

The right moment wears a full head of hair: when it has been missed, you can't get it back; it's bald in the back of the head and never turns around.

If you understand why a monkey in a family is always mocked and harassed, you understand why monks are rejected by all--both old and young.

The most Christian France is the sole wet-nurse to the Roman court.

I urge you to spend your youth profitably in study and virtue.... In brief, let me see in you an abyss of knowledge.

Science sans conscience n' est que le ruine de l'âme. Knowledge without conscience is but the ruine of the soule.

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.

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

Everything comes in time to those who can wait.

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.