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
Go, all of you poor people, in the name of God the Creator, and let him forever be your guide. And henceforth, do not be beguiledby these idle and useless pilgrimages. See to your families, and work, each one of you, in your vocation, raise your children, and live as the good Apostle Paul teaches you.
A child is not a vase to be filled, but a fire to be lit.
If you wish to avoid seeing a fool you must first break your looking glass
Science without conscience is the death of the soul.
For he who can wait, everything comes in time.
Looking as like - as one pea does like another
It is folly to put the plough in front of the oxen.
Science sans conscience n' est que le ruine de l'âme. Knowledge without conscience is but the ruine of the soule.
A young Saint - an old Devil, (mark this, an old saying, and as true a one as, a Young Whore an old Saint)
The very well and abyss of an encyclopaedia.
He 63 ways of getting money, the most common, most honorable ones being staling, thieving, and robbing.
Appetite comes with eating.
Bring down the curtain, the farce is over
All's well in the end, if you've only the patience to wait.