Francois Rabelais Quotes

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

Love, Words, Attractive

It is my feeling that Time ripens all things; with Time all things are revealed; Time is the father of truth.
Francois Rabelais

Time, Truth, Father

Everything comes in time to those who can wait.
Francois Rabelais

Time, Everything, Wait

To good and true love fear is forever affixed.
Francois Rabelais

Love, Good, Fear

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.
Francois Rabelais

Hope, God, Strength

Time, which wears down and diminishes all things, augments and increases good deeds, because a good turn liberally offered to a reasonable man grows continually through noble thought and memory.
Francois Rabelais

Time, Good, Down

We always long for the forbidden things, and desire what is denied us.
Francois Rabelais

Long, Desire, Forbidden

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

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

Wise, Made, Present

Debts and lies are generally mixed together.
Francois Rabelais

Together, Lies, Mixed

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

Strength, Gut, Hunger

Ignorance is the mother of all evils.
Francois Rabelais

Mother, Ignorance, Evils

There are more old drunkards than old physicians.
Francois Rabelais

Old, Drunkards, Physicians

There is no truer cause of unhappiness amongst men than, where naturally expecting charity and benevolence, they receive harm and vexation.
Francois Rabelais

Men, Cause, Charity

Believe me, 'tis a godlike thing to lend; to owe is a heroic virtue.
Francois Rabelais

Virtue, Heroic, Owe

For he who can wait, everything comes in time.
Francois Rabelais

Time, Everything, Wait

Frugality is for the vulgar.
Francois Rabelais

Vulgar, Frugality

Half the world does not know how the other half lives.
Francois Rabelais

How shall I be able to rule over others, that have not full power and command of myself?
Francois Rabelais

Power, Others, Able

I drink no more than a sponge.
Francois Rabelais

Science without conscience is the death of the soul.
Francois Rabelais

Death, Science, Soul

Tell the truth and shame the devil.
Francois Rabelais

Truth, Tell, Devil

A bellyful is a bellyful.
Francois Rabelais

A habit does not a monk make.
Francois Rabelais

Because just as arms have no force outside if there is no counsel within a house, study is vain and counsel useless that is not put to virtuous effect when the time calls.
Francois Rabelais

Time, Study, Put

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Biography

Nationality: French

Type: Clergyman

Born: 1493

Died: April 9, 1553

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