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
How comes it that you curse, Frere Jean? It's only, said the monk, in order to embellish my language. They are the colors of Ciceronian rhetoric.
He 63 ways of getting money, the most common, most honorable ones being staling, thieving, and robbing.
The very well and abyss of an encyclopaedia.
We always long for the forbidden things, and desire what is denied us.
It is my feeling that Time ripens all things; with Time all things are revealed; Time is the father of truth.
If you wish to avoid seeing a fool, you must first break your mirror
The scent of wine, oh how much more agreeable, laughing, praying, celestial and delicious it is than that of oil!
Everything comes in time to those who can wait.
I drink eternally. For me it is an eternity of drinking, and a drinking up of eternity.
I do not drink more than a sponge.
When I drink, I think; and when I think, I drink.
I drink no more than a sponge.
There are more old drunkards than old physicians.
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.