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
Wisdom entereth not into a malicious mind, and science without conscience is but the ruin of the soul.
— 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
I owe much; I have nothing; the rest I leave to the poor.
— Francois Rabelais
For he who can wait, everything comes in time.
— Francois Rabelais
I drink no more than a sponge.
— Francois Rabelais
Misery is the company of lawsuits.
— Francois Rabelais
I won't undertake war until I have tried all the arts and means of peace.
— 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
I go to see a Greater Perhaps.
— Francois Rabelais