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
He 63 ways of getting money, the most common, most honorable ones being staling, thieving, and robbing.
Men that are free, well-born, well-bred, and conversant in honest companies, have naturally an instinct and spur that prompteth them unto virtuous actions, and withdraws them from vice, which is called honour. Those same men, when by base subjection and constraint they are brought under and kept down, turn aside from that noble disposition, by which they formerly were inclined to virtue, to shake off and break that bond of servitude, wherein they are so tyrannously enslaved; for it is agreeable with the nature of man to long after things forbidden, and to desire what is denied us.
A good intention does not mean honor. [Fr., A bon entendeur ne faut qu'un parole.]
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
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.