Quotes from Francois Rabelais

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

Nature made the day for exercise, work and seeing to one's business; and ... it provides us with a candle, which is to say the bright and joyous light of the sun.

Remove idleness from the world and soon the arts of Cupid would perish.

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

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

Hungry bellies have no cars.

When I drink, I think; and when I think, I drink.

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

I go to seek a Great Perhaps.

I owe much; I have nothing; the rest I leave to the poor.

Appetite comes with eating.....but thirst goes away with drinking.

The appetite grows with eating.

I do not drink more than a sponge.

Oh thrice and four times happy... those who plant cabbages.

Keep running after a dog and he will never bite you.