Appetite comes with eating. Francois Rabelais More Quotes by Francois Rabelais More Quotes From Francois Rabelais Bottle, whose Mysterious Deep Do's ten thousand Secrets keep, With attentive Ear I wait; Ease my Mind, and speak my Fate. Francois Rabelais fate secret waiting Of a young hermit, an old devil. Francois Rabelais hermits devil youth Don't limp in front of the lame. Francois Rabelais decorum lame fronts 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. Francois Rabelais wisdom names children A certain jollity of mind, pickled in the scorn of fortune. Francois Rabelais certain fortune mind I have already related to you great and admirable things; but, if you might be induced to adventure upon the hazard of believing some other divinity of this sacred Pantagruelion, I very willingly would tell it you. Believe it, if you will, or otherwise, believe it not, I care not which of them you do, they are both alike to me. It shall be sufficient for my purpose to have told you the truth, and the truth I will tell you. Francois Rabelais hazards adventure believe If in your soil it takes, to heaven A thousand thousand thanks be given; And say with France, it goodly goes, Where the Pantagruelion grows. Francois Rabelais soil france heaven Thought I to myself, we shall never come off scot-free. Francois Rabelais scots Parisians are so besotted, so silly and so naturally inept that a street player, a seller of indulgences, a mule with its cymbals,a fiddler in the middle of a crossroads, will draw more people than would a good Evangelist preacher. Francois Rabelais player faith silly Death is the vast perhaps. Francois Rabelais Strike the iron whilst it is hot. Francois Rabelais iron strikes hot 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. Francois Rabelais color language order 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. Francois Rabelais bells sound world Do you know what Agelisas said, when he was asked why the great city of Lacedomonie was not girded with walls? Because, pointing out the inhabitants and citizens of the city, so expert in military discipline and so strong and well armed: "Here," he said, "are the walls of the city," meaning that there is no wall but of bones, and that towns and cities can have no more secure nor stronger wall than the virtue of their citizens and inhabitants. Francois Rabelais wall strong military I never sleep in comfort save when I am hearing a sermon or praying to God. Francois Rabelais hearing comfort sleep 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. Francois Rabelais sovereign queens cheer Let every one be fully convinced in his own mind. Francois Rabelais tolerance worship mind Time, which gnaws and diminisheth all things else, augments and increaseth benefits; because a noble action of liberality, done to a man of reason, doth grow continually by his generous thinking of it and remembering it. Francois Rabelais noble men thinking The belly has no ears nor is it to be filled with fair words. Francois Rabelais belly filled ears It is better to write of laughter than of tears, for laughter is the property of man. Francois Rabelais laughter writing happiness
