Believe me, 'tis a godlike thing to lend; to owe is a heroic virtue.
– Francois Rabelais
Debts and lies are generally mixed together.
– Francois Rabelais
Everything comes in time to those who can wait.
– Francois Rabelais
He had 63 ways of getting money, the most common, most honorable ones being staling, thieving, and robbing.
– Francois Rabelais
How shall I be able to rule over others, that have not full power and command of myself?
– Francois Rabelais
I am going to seek a great purpose, draw the curtain, the farce is played.
– Francois Rabelais
I drink no more than a sponge.
– Francois Rabelais
I have known many who could not when they would, for they had not done it when they could.
– Francois Rabelais
If the skies fall, one may hope to catch larks.
– Francois Rabelais
If you wish to avoid seeing a fool you must first break your looking glass.
– Francois Rabelais
No clock is more regular than the belly.
– Francois Rabelais
Now my innocence begins to weigh me down.
– Francois Rabelais
One falls to the ground in trying to sit on two stools.
– Francois Rabelais
The farce is finished. I go to seek a vast perhaps.
– Francois Rabelais
The very well and abyss of an encyclopaedia.
– Francois Rabelais
When I drink, I think; and when I think, I drink.
– Francois Rabelais
So much is a man worth as he esteems himself.
– Francois Rabelais
When undertaking marriage, everyone must be the judge of his own thoughts, and take counsel from himself.
– Francois Rabelais
To good and true love fear is forever affixed.
– Francois Rabelais
Tell the truth and shame the devil.
– Francois Rabelais
Science without conscience is the death of the soul.
– Francois Rabelais
Nature abhors a vacuum.
– Francois Rabelais
Misery is the company of lawsuits.
– Francois Rabelais
It is my feeling that Time ripens all things with Time all things are revealed Time is the father of truth.
– Francois Rabelais
I won't undertake war until I have tried all the arts and means of peace.
– Francois Rabelais
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.
– Francois Rabelais
Gestures, in love, are incomparably more attractive, effective and valuable than words.
– Francois Rabelais
From the gut comes the strut, and where hunger reigns, strength abstains.