François Rabelais Quotes

En toutes compagnies il y a plus de folz que de sages, et la plus grande partie surmonte tousjours la meilleure.

... I say and maintain, that of all torcheculs, arsewisps, bumfodders, tail-napkins, bunghole cleansers, and wipe-breeches, there is none in the world comparable to the neck of a goose ...

On the third day the sky seemed to us somewhat clearer, and we happily arrived at the port of Mateotechny, not far distant from Queen Whims, alias the Quintessence. We met full butt on the quay a great number of guards and other military men that garrisoned the arsenal, and we were somewhat frighted at first because they made us all lay down our arms, and in a haughty manner asked us whence we came.

because men that are free,well born,well bred,and conversant in honest companies have naturally an instinct and spur that prompteth them unto virtuous actions,and withdraws them from vice which is called honor

We will take the good-will for the deed.

Les heures sont faictez pour l'homme, et non l'homme pour les heures.

Science without conscience is only ruin of the soul.

What cannot be cured must be endured.

"Privatio presupponit habitum"

"Yokluk varlığı şart koşar."

Подтирался я еще курицей, петухом, цыпленком, телячьей шкурой, зайцем,
голубем, бакланом, адвокатским мешком, капюшоном, чепцом, чучелом птицы.
В заключение, однако ж, я должен сказать следующее: лучшая в мире
подтирка - это пушистый гусенок, уверяю вас, - только когда вы просовываете
его себе между ног, то держите его за голову. Вашему отверстию в это время
бывает необыкновенно приятно, во-первых, потому, что пух у гусенка нежный, а во-вторых, потому, что сам гусенок тепленький, и это тепло через задний
проход и кишечник без труда проникает в область сердца и мозга. И напрасно
вы думаете, будто всем своим блаженством в Елисейских полях герои и полубоги обязаны асфоделям, амброзии и нектару, как тут у нас болтают старухи. По-моему, все дело в том, что они подтираются гусятами, и таково мнение
ученейшего Иоанна Скотта.

Being come down from thence towards Seville, they were heard by Gargantua, who said then unto those that were with him, Comrades and fellow-soldiers, we have here met with an encounter, and they are ten times in number more than we. Shall we charge them or no? What a devil, said the monk, shall we do else? Do you esteem men by their number rather than by their valour and prowess? With this he cried out, Charge, devils, charge! Which when the enemies heard, they thought certainly that they had been very devils, and therefore even then began all of them to run away as hard as they could drive, Drawforth only excepted, who immediately settled his lance on its rest, and therewith hit the monk with all his force on the very middle of his breast, but, coming against his horrific frock, the point of the iron being with the blow either broke off or blunted, it was in matter of execution as if you had struck against an anvil with a little wax-candle.

— Quoi ! dit Tripet, ce gautier ici se gabèle de nous. Oui es-tu? — Je suis, dit Gymnaste, pauvre diable. — Ha ! dit Tripet, puisque tu es pauvre diable, c'est raison que passes outre, car tout pauvre diable passe partout sans péage ni gabelle; mais ce n'est de coutume que pauvres diables soient si bien montés. Pourtant, monsieur le diable, descendez que j'aie le roussin, et si bien il ne me porte, vous, maître diable, me porterez, car j'aime fort qu'un diable tel m'emporte. »

Un homme de bien, un homme de bon sens, croit toujours ce qu’on lui dit et ce qu’il trouve dans les livres.

Let us fly and save our bacon.

Do not believe what I tell you here any more than if it were some tale of a tub.