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
The Devil was sick - the Devil a monk would be, The Devil was well the devil a monk was he
Keep running after a dog and he will never bite you.
Never did a great man hate good wine.
I am going to seek a great purpose, draw the curtain, the farce is played.
One inch of joy surmounts of grief a span, Because to laugh is proper to the man.
How shall I be able to rule over others, that have not full power and command of myself?
All's well in the end, if you've only the patience to wait.
The farce is finished. I go to seek a vast perhaps.
It is better to write of laughter than of tears, for laughter is the property of man.
Misery is the company of lawsuits.
The right moment wears a full head of hair: when it has been missed, you can't get it back; it's bald in the back of the head and never turns around.
When undertaking marriage, everyone must be the judge of his own thoughts, and take counsel from himself.
The remedy for thirst? It is the opposite of the one for a dog bite: run always after a dog, he'll never bite you; drink always before thirst, and it will never overtake you.
Appetite comes with eating.....but thirst goes away with drinking.