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
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
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.
When I drink, I think; and when I think, I drink.
There are more old drunkards than old physicians.
Thought I to myself, we shall never come off scot-free.
There are more old drunkards than old physicians. [Fr., Il y a plus de vieux ivrongnes qu'il y a de vieux medecins.]
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).
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.