Quote

Machination is worth more than force.

Francois Rabelais

Change background

T
T
T

Change font

TAGS & TOPICS

Francois Rabelais
Died: 1553
Died: April 9
Clergyman
Monk
Novelist
Physician Writer
Writer
Chinon-sur-Vienne
Francois Rabelais
Rabelais
Worth
Force
Deceit

More quotes by Francois Rabelais

Image
Don't limp in front of the lame.
Francois Rabelais
Image
So much is a man worth as he esteems himself.
Francois Rabelais
Image
The probity that scintillizes in the superfices of your persons informs my ratiocinating faculty, in a most stupendous manner, of the radiant virtues latent within the precious caskets and ventricles of your minds.
Francois Rabelais
Image
Early rising is no pleasure early drinking's just the measure.
Francois Rabelais
Image
Can there be any greater dotage in the world than for one to guide and direct his courses by the sound of a bell, and not by his own judgment.
Francois Rabelais
Image
The remedy for thirst? It is the opposite of the one for a dog bite: run always after a dog, he'll never bite you drink always before thirst, and it will never overtake you.
Francois Rabelais
Image
I know of a charm by way of a prayer that will preserve a man from the violence of guns and all manner of fire-weapons and engines but it will do me no good because I do not believe it
Francois Rabelais
Image
There is nothing holy nor sacred to those who have abandoned God and reason in order to follow their perverse desires.
Francois Rabelais
Image
I never sleep comfortably except when I am at sermon or when I pray to God.
Francois Rabelais
Image
A certain jollity of mind, pickled in the scorn of fortune.
Francois Rabelais
Image
Fate leads the willing, and th' unwilling draws.
Francois Rabelais
Image
It is folly to put the plough in front of the oxen.
Francois Rabelais
Image
Giving words [is] an act of lovers.
Francois Rabelais
Image
Thought I to myself, we shall never come off scot-free.
Francois Rabelais
Image
I drink no more than a sponge.
Francois Rabelais
Image
You have no obligation under the sun other than to discover your real needs, to fulfill them, and to rejoice in doing so.
Francois Rabelais
Image
The deed will be accomplished with the least amount of bloodshed possible, and, if possible ..., we'll save all the souls and send them happily off to their abode.
Francois Rabelais
Image
If in your soil it takes, to heaven A thousand thousand thanks be given And say with France, it goodly goes, Where the Pantagruelion grows.
Francois Rabelais
Image
I never drink without a thirst, either present or future.
Francois Rabelais
Image
He who has not an adventure has not horse or mule, so says Solomon.--Who is too adventurous, said Echephron,--loses horse and mule.
Francois Rabelais