Quotes from Francois Rabelais

We will take the good will for the deed.

Go hang yourselves [critics]… you shall never want rope enough.

This flea which I have in mine ear.

Like hearts of oak.

Plain as a nose in a man's face.

Looking as like… as one pea does like another.

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.

It is my feeling that Time ripens all things with Time all things are revealed Time is the father of truth.

One falls to the ground in trying to sit on two stools.

Now my innocence begins to weigh me down.

Time, which gnaws and diminishes all things else, augments and increases benefits, because a noble action of liberality done to a man of reason doth grow continually by his generously thinking of it and remembering it.

Seeing how sorrow eats you, defeats you. I'd rather write about laughing than crying, For laughter makes men human, and courageous.

Science without conscience is the soul's perdition.

Tell the truth and shame the devil.

the wise may be instructed by a fool

I have nothing, I owe a great deal, and the rest I leave to the poor.

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

Bring down the curtain, the farce is played out.

to laugh is proper to the man.

There are more old drunkards than old physicians.

We have here other fish to fry.

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

A war undertaken without sufficient monies has but a wisp of force. Coins are the very sinews of battles.