Share
×
Inspirational Quotes
Authors
Professions
Topics
Tags
Quote
Thought I to myself, we shall never come off scot-free.
Francois Rabelais
Share
Change background
T
T
T
Change font
Original
TAGS & TOPICS
Francois Rabelais
Died: 1553
Died: April 9
Clergyman
Monk
Novelist
Physician Writer
Writer
Chinon-sur-Vienne
Francois Rabelais
Rabelais
Scot
Scots
Shall
Free
Thought
Come
Never
More quotes by Francois Rabelais
I am going to seek a great perhaps.
Francois Rabelais
Appetite comes with eating.....but thirst goes away with drinking.
Francois Rabelais
Believe me, 'tis a godlike thing to lend to owe is a heroic virtue.
Francois Rabelais
Because, according to the sage Solomon, wisdom does not enter into a soul that seeks after evil, and knowledge without conscienceis the ruin of the soul, it behooves you to serve, love and fear God and to put all your thoughts and hope in him, and by faith founded in charity, be joined to him, such that you never be separated from him by sin.
Francois Rabelais
According to true military art, one should never push one's enemy to the point of despair, because such a state multiplies his strength and increases his courage which had already been crushed and failing, and because there is no better remedy for the health of beaten and overwhelmed men than the absence of all hope.
Francois Rabelais
All things have their ends and cycles. And when they have reached their highest point, they are in their lowest ruin, for they cannot last for long in such a state. Such is the end for those who cannot moderate their fortune and prosperity with reason and temperance.
Francois Rabelais
So much is a man worth as he esteems himself.
Francois Rabelais
If you want to avoid seeing an idiot, break the mirror.
Francois Rabelais
I'd rather write about laughing than crying, For laughter makes men human, and courageous.
Francois Rabelais
Let every one be fully convinced in his own mind.
Francois Rabelais
What harm in learning and getting knowledge even from a sot, a pot, a fool, a mitten, or a slipper. [Fr., Que nuist savoir tousjours et tousjours apprendre, fust ce D'un sot, d'une pot, d'une que--doufle D'un mouffe, d'un pantoufle.]
Francois Rabelais
Bottle, whose Mysterious Deep Do's ten thousand Secrets keep, With attentive Ear I wait Ease my Mind, and speak my Fate.
Francois Rabelais
Tell the truth and shame the devil.
Francois Rabelais
I have known many who could not when they would, for they had not done it when they could.
Francois Rabelais
Science without conscience is the soul's perdition.
Francois Rabelais
I drink for the thirst to come.
Francois Rabelais
I never drink without a thirst, either present or future.
Francois Rabelais
How comes it that you curse, Frere Jean? It's only, said the monk, in order to embellish my language. They are the colors of Ciceronian rhetoric.
Francois Rabelais
Giving words [is] an act of lovers.
Francois Rabelais
Between two stools one sits on the ground.
Francois Rabelais
