Quote

One should never pursue the hazards of fortune to their very ends andit behooves all adventurers to treat their good luck with reverence, neither bothering nor upsetting it.

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
Never
Treat
Adventurers
Pursue
Upsetting
Treats
Bothering
Luck
Adventurer
Fortune
Hazards
Neither
Reverence
Ends
Upset
Good
Bother
Behooves

More quotes by 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
No clock is more regular than the belly.
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
To good and true love, fear is forever affixed.
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
Image
We always long for the forbidden things, and desire what is denied us.
Francois Rabelais
Image
Oh how unhappy is the prince served by such men who are so easily corrupted.
Francois Rabelais
Image
It is folly to put the plough in front of the oxen.
Francois Rabelais
Image
Between two stools one sits on the ground.
Francois Rabelais
Image
The most Christian France is the sole wet-nurse to the Roman court.
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
I drink no more than a sponge.
Francois Rabelais
Image
Early rising is no pleasure early drinking's just the measure.
Francois Rabelais
Image
I never sleep comfortably except when I am at sermon or when I pray to God.
Francois Rabelais
Image
Thought I to myself, we shall never come off scot-free.
Francois Rabelais
Image
To laugh is proper to man.
Francois Rabelais
Image
Bottle, whose Mysterious Deep Do's ten thousand Secrets keep, With attentive Ear I wait Ease my Mind, and speak my Fate.
Francois Rabelais
Image
Frugality is for the vulgar.
Francois Rabelais
Image
I never sleep in comfort save when I am hearing a sermon or praying to God.
Francois Rabelais
Image
Machination is worth more than force.
Francois Rabelais