Francois Rabelais famous quotes

04-18-2025

We always long for the forbidden things, and desire what is denied us.
-- Francois Rabelais

#Long #Desire #Forbidden Things
It is my feeling that Time ripens all things; with Time all things are revealed; Time is the father of truth.
-- Francois Rabelais

#Time #Father #Feelings
The scent of wine, oh how much more agreeable, laughing, praying, celestial and delicious it is than that of oil!
-- Francois Rabelais

#Wine #Oil #Laughing
Everything comes in time to those who can wait.
-- Francois Rabelais

#Time #Waiting
To good and true love, fear is forever affixed.
-- Francois Rabelais

#Fear #Forever #Fear Of Love
When I drink, I think; and when I think, I drink.
-- Francois Rabelais

#Drinking #Thinking #Drink
There are more old drunkards than old physicians.
-- Francois Rabelais

#Drinking #Physicians
If you wish to avoid seeing a fool, you must first break your mirror
-- Francois Rabelais

#Humility #Mirrors #Wish
I do not drink more than a sponge.
-- Francois Rabelais

#Beer #Drink #Sponges
I drink no more than a sponge.
-- Francois Rabelais

#Beer #Drink #Sponges
A child is not a vase to be filled, but a fire to be lit.
-- Francois Rabelais

#Children #Fire #Vases
So much is a man worth as he esteems himself.
-- Francois Rabelais

#Men #Esteem
If the skies fall, one may hope to catch larks.
-- Francois Rabelais

#Attitude #Fall #Opportunity
He that has patience may compass anything.
-- Francois Rabelais

#May #Compass #Having Patience
Debts and lies are generally mixed together.
-- Francois Rabelais

#Lying #Together #Debt
Gestures, in love, are incomparably more attractive, effective and valuable than words.
-- Francois Rabelais

#Love #Marriage #Gestures
A habit does not a monk make.
-- Francois Rabelais

#Doe #Monk #Habit
Pantagruelism is a certain gaitey of the spirit consisting in a disdain for the hazards of fortune.
-- Francois Rabelais

#Philosophical #Hazards #Spirit
Languages exist by arbitrary institutions and conventions among peoples; words, as the dialecticians tell us, do not signify naturally, but at our pleasure.
-- Francois Rabelais

#Arbitrary #Language #Pleasure
I drink eternally. For me it is an eternity of drinking, and a drinking up of eternity.
-- Francois Rabelais

#Drinking #Drink #Eternity
If you say to me: "Master, it would seem that you weren't too terribly wise to have written these bits of nonsense and pleasant mockeries," I respond that you are hardly more so in finding amusement in reading them.
-- Francois Rabelais

#Wise #Reading #Amusement
Not everyone is a debtor who wishes to be; not everyone who wishes makes creditors.
-- Francois Rabelais

#Wish #Debtors #Creditors
The most Christian France is the sole wet-nurse to the Roman court.
-- Francois Rabelais

#Christian #Nurse #Religion
Because, according to the sage Solomon, wisdom does not enter into a soul that seeks after evil, and knowledge without conscienceis the ruin of the soul, it behooves you to serve, love and fear God and to put all your thoughts and hope in him, and by faith founded in charity, be joined to him, such that you never be separated from him by sin.
-- Francois Rabelais

#God #Wisdom #Evil
Parisians are so besotted, so silly and so naturally inept that a street player, a seller of indulgences, a mule with its cymbals,a fiddler in the middle of a crossroads, will draw more people than would a good Evangelist preacher.
-- Francois Rabelais

#Faith #Silly #Player
There is nothing holy nor sacred to those who have abandoned God and reason in order to follow their perverse desires.
-- Francois Rabelais

#Order #Arrogance #Desire
Go, all of you poor people, in the name of God the Creator, and let him forever be your guide. And henceforth, do not be beguiledby these idle and useless pilgrimages. See to your families, and work, each one of you, in your vocation, raise your children, and live as the good Apostle Paul teaches you.
-- Francois Rabelais

#Wisdom #Children #Names

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