198 Quotes by François Rabelais

In this mortal life, nothing is blessed throughout.

How do you know antiquity was foolish? How do you know the present is wise? Who made it foolish? Who made it wise?

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.

From the gut comes the strut, and where hunger reigns, strength abstains.

A man of good sense always believes what he is told, and what he finds written down.

I place no hope in my strength, nor in my works: but all my confidence is in God my protector, who never abandons those who have put all their hope and thought in him.

It is said, proverbially, that happy is the doctor who is called in when the disease is on its way out.

No clock is more regular than the belly.

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.