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
The Devil was sick - the Devil a monk would be, The Devil was well the devil a monk was he
Because, according to the sage Solomon, wisdom does not enter into a soul that seeks after evil, and knowledge without conscienceis the ruin of the soul, it behooves you to serve, love and fear God and to put all your thoughts and hope in him, and by faith founded in charity, be joined to him, such that you never be separated from him by sin.
The very well and abyss of an encyclopaedia.
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.
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)
Looking as like - as one pea does like another
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.