Quotes by Francois Rabelais

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

“To good and true love fear is forever affixed.”

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

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

“Misery is the company of lawsuits.”

“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.”

“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.”

“Nature abhors a vacuum.”

“Plain as a nose in a man's face.”

“We always long for forbidden things k and desire what is denied us.”

“I never sleep comfortably except when I am at sermon or when I pray to God.”

“He replies nothing but monosyllables. I believe he would make three bites of a cherry.”

“I never sleep in comfort save when I am hearing a sermon or praying to God.”

“Half the world does not know how the other half lives.”

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

“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.”

“I go to seek a Great Perhaps.”

“Science without conscience is the soul's perdition.”