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
Nature abhors a vacuum.
Gestures, in love, are incomparably more attractive, effective and valuable than words.
Everything comes in time to those who can wait.
Debts and lies are generally mixed together.
The scent of wine, oh how much more agreeable, laughing, praying, celestial and delicious it is than that of oil!
If the head is lost, all that perishes is the individual; if the balls are lost, all of human nature perishes.
If you wish to avoid seeing a fool, you must first break your mirror
It is my feeling that Time ripens all things; with Time all things are revealed; Time is the father of truth.
Appetite comes with eating.....but thirst goes away with drinking.
Ignorance is the mother of all evils.
We always long for the forbidden things, and desire what is denied us.