198 Quotes by François Rabelais

The dress does not make the monk. [Fr., L'habit ne fait le moine.]

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.

I never sleep in comfort save when I am hearing a sermon or praying to God.

It is folly to put the plough in front of the oxen.

Pantagruel was telling me that he believed the queen had given the symbolic word used among her subjects to denote sovereign good cheer, when she said to her tabachins, A panacea.

Science sans conscience n' est que le ruine de l'âme. Knowledge without conscience is but the ruine of the soule.

A good intention does not mean honor. [Fr., A bon entendeur ne faut qu'un parole.]

Looking as like - as one pea does like another

Indeed, said the monk, a mass, a matins, and vespers well rung are half-said.