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
If you say to me: "Master, it would seem that you weren't too terribly wise to have written these bits of nonsense and pleasant mockeries," I respond that you are hardly more so in finding amusement in reading them.
I recognize in [my readers] a specific form and individual property, which our predecessors called Pantagruelism, by means of which they never take anything the wrong way that they know to stem from good, honest and loyal hearts.
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.