Quote

I am going to seek a great perhaps.

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
Going
Seek
Perhaps
Great

More quotes by Francois Rabelais

Image
It is better to write of laughter than of tears, for laughter is the property of man.
Francois Rabelais
Image
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
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
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
Image
From the gut comes the strut, and where hunger reigns, strength abstains.
Francois Rabelais
Image
Tell the truth and shame the devil.
Francois Rabelais
Image
How can I govern others, who can't even govern myself?
Francois Rabelais
Image
I am going to seek a grand perhaps.
Francois Rabelais
Image
I drink no more than a sponge.
Francois Rabelais
Image
I am going to seek a great purpose, draw the curtain, the farce is played.
Francois Rabelais
Image
Keep running after a dog and he will never bite you.
Francois Rabelais
Image
It is folly to put the plough in front of the oxen.
Francois Rabelais
Image
Believe me, 'tis a godlike thing to lend to owe is a heroic virtue.
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
The most Christian France is the sole wet-nurse to the Roman court.
Francois Rabelais
Image
Wisdom entereth not into a malicious mind.
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
The farce is finished. I go to seek a vast perhaps.
Francois Rabelais
Image
Science without conscience is the soul's perdition.
Francois Rabelais
Image
Let every one be fully convinced in his own mind.
Francois Rabelais