198 Quotes by François Rabelais

For God, nothing is impossible. And, if he wanted, in the future women would give birth from their ears.

How can I govern others, who can't even govern myself?

The farce is finished. I go to seek a vast perhaps.

Parisians are so besotted, so silly and so naturally inept that a street player, a seller of indulgences, a mule with its cymbals,a fiddler in the middle of a crossroads, will draw more people than would a good Evangelist preacher.

When I drink, I think; and when I think, I drink.

Thought I to myself, we shall never come off scot-free.

Remove idleness from the world and soon the arts of Cupid would perish.

Always open all gates and roads to your enemies, and rather make for them a bridge of silver, to get rid of them. [Fr., Ouvrez toujours a vos ennemis toutes les portes et chemin, et plutot leur faites un pont d'argent, afin de les renvoyer.]

There is no truer cause of unhappiness amongst men than, where naturally expecting charity and benevolence, they receive harm and vexation.