Quotes by
François Rabelais |
1484-1553 , French writer
French writer and priest who for his contemporaries was an eminent physician, a Greek scholar and humanist and for posterity is the author of the comic masterpiece Gargantua and Pantagruel (1532-1534). The four volumes composing this work have gone down in literary history for their rich use of Renaissance French and for their bold satire (despite all the extreme and gross obscenity in many places).
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Quotations
| • | I never follow the clock: hours were made for man, not man for hours. 2 |
| • | Science without conscience is only ruin of the soul. 2 |
| • | I have nothing, owe a great deal, and the rest I leave to the poor. (His last will) 1 |
| • | Tell the truth and shame the devil. 1 |
| • | Man was born to work, like birds to fly. |
| • | Wine is the most civilized thing in the world. |
| • | Seeing how sorrow eats you, defeats you, I’d rather write about laughing than crying, For laughter makes men human, and courageous. |
| • | I know many who couldn’t act when they should, because they didn't act when they could. |
| • | I go to seek a Great Perhaps. (Hia last words) |
| • | A mother-in-law dies only when another devil is needed in hell. |
| • | Half the world does not know how the other half lives. |
| • | No clock is more regular than the belly. |
| • | I drink no more than a sponge. |
| • | Frugality is for the vulgar. |
