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
A habit does not a monk make.
I drink no more than a sponge.
There are more old drunkards than old physicians.
If the skies fall, one may hope to catch larks.
Of a young hermit, an old devil. [Fr., De jeune hermite, vieil diable.]
Languages exist by arbitrary institutions and conventions among peoples; words, as the dialecticians tell us, do not signify naturally, but at our pleasure.
From the gut comes the strut, and where hunger reigns, strength abstains.
Strike the iron whilst it is hot.
I've often heard it said, as the common proverb goes, that a fool can teach a wise man well.
If you understand why a monkey in a family is always mocked and harassed, you understand why monks are rejected by all--both old and young.
Oh thrice and four times happy... those who plant cabbages.
The most Christian France is the sole wet-nurse to the Roman court.
Thought I to myself, we shall never come off scot-free.
Pantagruel was telling me that he believed the queen had given the symbolic word used among her subjects to denote sovereign good cheer, when she said to her tabachins, A panacea.