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
I'd rather write about laughing than crying, For laughter makes men human, and courageous.
Remove idleness from the world and soon the arts of Cupid would perish.
Between two stools one sits on the ground.
He who has not an adventure has not horse or mule, so says Solomon.--Who is too adventurous, said Echephron,--loses horse and mule.
I have known many who could not when they would, for they had not done it when they could.
Friends, you will notice that in this world there are many more ballocks than men. Remember this.
The Lord forbid that I should be out of debt, as if indeed I could not be trusted.
Science without conscience is the soul's perdition.
If you want to avoid seeing an idiot, break the mirror.
Death is the vast perhaps.
When undertaking marriage, everyone must be the judge of his own thoughts, and take counsel from himself.
The right moment wears a full head of hair: when it has been missed, you can't get it back; it's bald in the back of the head and never turns around.
Because just as arms have no force outside if there is no counsel within a house, study is vain and counsel useless that is not put to virtuous effect when the time calls.
I am going to seek the great Perhaps.