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
There is no truer cause of unhappiness amongst men than, where naturally expecting charity and benevolence, they receive harm and vexation.
How do you know antiquity was foolish? How do you know the present is wise? Who made it foolish? Who made it wise?
Tell the truth and shame the devil.
From the gut comes the strut, and where hunger reigns, strength abstains.
Believe me, 'tis a godlike thing to lend; to owe is a heroic virtue.
Bottle, whose Mysterious Deep Do's ten thousand Secrets keep, With attentive Ear I wait; Ease my Mind, and speak my Fate.
The appetite grows with eating.
Time, which wears down and diminishes all things, augments and increases good deeds, because a good turn liberally offered to a reasonable man grows continually through noble thought and memory.
A little rain beats down a big wind. Long drinking bouts break open the tun(der).
Wisdom entereth not into a malicious mind.
I never sleep comfortably except when I am at sermon or when I pray to God.
Machination is worth more than force.
You have no obligation under the sun other than to discover your real needs, to fulfill them, and to rejoice in doing so.
In their rules there was only one clause: Do what you will.