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 better to write of laughter than of tears, for laughter is the property of man.
The farce is finished. I go to seek a vast perhaps.
Giving words [is] an act of lovers.
Such is the nature and make-up of the French that they are only good at the start. Then they are worse than devils, but, given time, they're less than women.
Pantagruelism is a certain gaitey of the spirit consisting in a disdain for the hazards of fortune.
Let every one be fully convinced in his own mind.
I know of a charm by way of a prayer that will preserve a man from the violence of guns and all manner of fire-weapons and engines but it will do me no good because I do not believe it
The Devil was sick - the Devil a monk would be, The Devil was well the devil a monk was he
Languages exist by arbitrary institutions and conventions among peoples; words, as the dialecticians tell us, do not signify naturally, but at our pleasure.
Keep running after a dog and he will never bite you.
I owe much; I have nothing; the rest I leave to the poor.
I drink for the thirst to come.
I place no hope in my strength, nor in my works: but all my confidence is in God my protector, who never abandons those who have put all their hope and thought in him.
No clock is more regular than the belly.