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 appetite grows with eating.
I drink for the thirst to come.
Science sans conscience n' est que le ruine de l'âme. Knowledge without conscience is but the ruine of the soule.
I owe much; I have nothing; the rest I leave to the poor.
Bring down the curtain, the farce is over
Bottle, whose Mysterious Deep Do's ten thousand Secrets keep, With attentive Ear I wait; Ease my Mind, and speak my Fate.
I never drink without a thirst, either present or future.
Half the world does not know how the other half lives.
You have no obligation under the sun other than to discover your real needs, to fulfill them, and to rejoice in doing so.
It is folly to put the plough in front of the oxen.
I never sleep comfortably except when I am at sermon or when I pray to God.
But where are the snows of last year? That was the greatest concern of Villon, the Parisian poet.
In their rules there was only one clause: Do what you will.
I'd rather write about laughing than crying, For laughter makes men human, and courageous.