List of Francois Rabelais Quotes

It Is The Custom On Africa To Always Produce New And Monstrous Things. [fr., Afrique Est Coustumiere Toujours Choses Produire Nouvelles Et Monstrueuses.]

Hungry Bellies Have No Cars.

I Know Of A Charm By Way Of A Prayer That Will Preserve A Man From The Violence Of Guns And All Manner Of Fire-weapons And Engines But It Will Do Me No Good Because I Do Not Believe It

Thought I To Myself, We Shall Never Come Off Scot-free.

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.

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.

I Never Sleep In Comfort Save When I Am Hearing A Sermon Or Praying To God.

Can There Be Any Greater Dotage In The World Than For One To Guide And Direct His Courses By The Sound Of A Bell, And Not By His Own Judgment.

Go, All Of You Poor People, In The Name Of God The Creator, And Let Him Forever Be Your Guide. And Henceforth, Do Not Be Beguiledby These Idle And Useless Pilgrimages. See To Your Families, And Work, Each One Of You, In Your Vocation, Raise Your Children, And Live As The Good Apostle Paul Teaches You.

Between Two Stools One Sits On The Ground.

The Age Was Still Dark And Reeked Of The Havoc And Misfortunes Of The Goths Who Had Put All Good Literature To Destruction. But, By God's Goodness, In My Time Light And Dignity Were Returned To Letters, And I See There Such Improvement That Today I Would Have Great Difficulty Being Admitted To The Most Elementary Classes--i, Who In My Time Was Reputed To Be (and Not Wrongly) To Be The Most Knowledgeable Person Of The Century.

Petite Ville, Grand Renom. Small Town, Great Renown.