Francois Rabelais
Francois Rabelais
François Rabelaiswas a major French Renaissance writer, physician, Renaissance humanist, monk and Greek scholar. He has historically been regarded as a writer of fantasy, satire, the grotesque, bawdy jokes and songs. His best known work is Gargantua and Pantagruel. Because of his literary power and historical importance, Western literary critics considered him one of the great writers of world literature and among the creators of modern European writing. His literary legacy is such that today, the word "Rabelaisian" has been...
NationalityFrench
ProfessionClergyman
CountryFrance
We will take the good-will for the deed.
Don't limp in front of the lame.
All things have their ends and cycles. And when they have reached their highest point, they are in their lowest ruin, for they cannot last for long in such a state. Such is the end for those who cannot moderate their fortune and prosperity with reason and temperance.
A little rain beats down a big wind. Long drinking bouts break open the tun(der).
Let every one be fully convinced in his own mind.
Ha! for a divine and lordly manor, there is nothing like solid ground.
One inch of joy surmounts of grief a span, Because to laugh is proper to the man.
Appetite comes with eating.....but thirst goes away with drinking.
Science sans conscience n' est que le ruine de l'âme. Knowledge without conscience is but the ruine of the soule.
Half the world does not know how the other half lives.
It is folly to put the plough in front of the oxen.
In their rules there was only one clause: Do what you will.
Frugality is for the vulgar.
Tell the truth and shame the devil.