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 never drink without a thirst, either present or future.
I drink for the thirst to come.
A little rain beats down a big wind. Long drinking bouts break open the tun(der).
Early rising is no pleasure; early drinking's just the measure.
Wait a second while I take a swig off this bottle: it's my true and only Helicon, my Caballine fount, my sole Enthusiasm. Here, drinking, I deliberate, I reason, I resolve and conclude. After the epilogue I laugh, I write, I compose, I drink. Ennius drinking would write, writing would drink.
There are more old drunkards than old physicians. [Fr., Il y a plus de vieux ivrongnes qu'il y a de vieux medecins.]
I do not drink more than a sponge.
When I drink, I think; and when I think, I drink.
There are more old drunkards than old physicians.
I drink no more than a sponge.
I drink eternally. For me it is an eternity of drinking, and a drinking up of eternity.
Appetite comes with eating.....but thirst goes away with drinking.
The very well and abyss of an encyclopaedia.
If you wish to avoid seeing a fool you must first break your looking glass