Quotes from Francois Rabelais
I urge you to spend your youth profitably in study and virtue.... In brief, let me see in you an abyss of knowledge.
— Francois Rabelais
Oh thrice and four times happy... those who plant cabbages.
— Francois Rabelais
I drink no more than a sponge.
— Francois Rabelais
I owe much; I have nothing; the rest I leave to the poor.
— Francois Rabelais
Science without conscience is only ruin of the soul.
— Francois Rabelais
I have nothing, I owe a great deal, and the rest I leave to the poor.
— Francois Rabelais
Misery is the company of lawsuits.
— Francois Rabelais
Misery is the company of lawsuits.
— Francois Rabelais
Wisdom entereth not into a malicious mind, and science without conscience is but the ruin of the soul.
— Francois Rabelais
He would flay the fox, say the ape's paternoster, return to his sheep, and turn the hogs to the hay. He would beat the dogs before the lion, put the plough before the oxen, and claw where it did not itch.
— 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
Science without conscience is the death of the soul.
— Francois Rabelais