Quote

The belly has no ears nor is it to be filled with fair words.

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
Filled
Words
Belly
Fairs
Fair
Ears

More quotes by Francois Rabelais

Image
Science sans conscience n' est que le ruine de l'âme. Knowledge without conscience is but the ruine of the soule.
Francois Rabelais
Image
It's a shame to be called educated those who do not study the ancient Greek writers.
Francois Rabelais
Image
The most Christian France is the sole wet-nurse to the Roman court.
Francois Rabelais
Image
The right moment wears a full head of hair: when it has been missed, you can't get it back it's bald in the back of the head and never turns around.
Francois Rabelais
Image
To laugh is proper to man.
Francois Rabelais
Image
No clock is more regular than the belly.
Francois Rabelais
Image
Science without conscience is the soul's perdition.
Francois Rabelais
Image
It is folly to put the plough in front of the oxen.
Francois Rabelais
Image
Oh how unhappy is the prince served by such men who are so easily corrupted.
Francois Rabelais
Image
Nature abhors a vacuum.
Francois Rabelais
Image
Gestures, in love, are incomparably more attractive, effective and valuable than words.
Francois Rabelais
Image
I drink for the thirst to come.
Francois Rabelais
Image
For God, nothing is impossible. And, if he wanted, in the future women would give birth from their ears.
Francois Rabelais
Image
When my soul leaves this human dwelling, I will not consider myself to have completely died, but to pass from one state to another, given that, in you and by you, I remain in my visible image in this world.
Francois Rabelais
Image
Early rising is no pleasure early drinking's just the measure.
Francois Rabelais
Image
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.
Francois Rabelais
Image
If you wish to be good Pantagruelists (which is to say, live in peace, joy, health, and always dining well), never put too much faith in people who look out through a hole.
Francois Rabelais
Image
A little rain beats down a big wind. Long drinking bouts break open the tun(der).
Francois Rabelais
Image
Row on [whatever happens]. [Lat., Vogue la galere.]
Francois Rabelais
Image
All's well in the end, if you've only the patience to wait.
Francois Rabelais