Francois Rabelais Quotes

• For he who can wait, everything comes in time.

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• Friends, you will notice that in this world there are many more ballocks than men. Remember this.

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• From the gut comes the strut, and where hunger reigns, strength abstains.

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• Frugality is for the vulgar.

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• Gestures, in love, are incomparably more attractive, effective and valuable than words.

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• How do you know antiquity was foolish? How do you know the present is wise? Who made it foolish? Who made it wise?

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• How can I govern others, who can’t even govern myself?

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• How do you know antiquity was foolish? How do you know the present is wise? Who made it foolish? Who made it wise?

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• I drink no more than a sponge.

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• I have known many who could not when they would, for they had not done it when they could.

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• I place no hope in my strength, nor in my works: but all my confidence is in God my protector, who never abandons those who have put all their hope and thought in him.

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• I won’t undertake war until I have tried all the arts and means of peace.

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• If the skies fall, one may hope to catch larks.

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• Ignorance is the mother of all evils.

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• If you wish to avoid seeing a fool you must first break your looking glass.

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• In their rules there was only one clause: Do what you will.

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• It is better to write of laughter than of tears, for laughter is the property of man.

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• No clock is more regular than the belly.

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• One falls to the ground in trying to sit on two stools.

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• Remove idleness from the world and soon the arts of Cupid would perish.

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Francois Rabelais (56)

Birth:	1494
Death:	9th April, 1553
Nationality:	French
Profession:	Humanist, Physician, Writer

About

Francois Rabelais was born in Chinon, France. He was a major French Renaissance writer, physician, and Renaissance humanist. 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. He studied medicine at the University of Poitiers and at the University of Montpellier.

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