Thought the moon was made of green cheese. - François Rabelais

There has been here from other countries a pack of I know not what overweening self-conceited prigs, as moody as so many mules and as stout as any Scotch lairds, and nothing would serve these, forsooth, but they must wilfully wrangle and stand out against us at their coming; and much they got by it after all. Troth, we e'en fitted them and clawed 'em off with a vengeance, for all they looked so big and so grum. Pray tell me, does your time lie so heavy upon you in your world that you do not know how to bestow it better than in thus impudently talking, disputing, and writing of our sovereign lady?

Le bonhomme Grandgousier buvant, et se rigolant avec les autres entendit le cri horrible que son fils avait fait entrant en lumière de ce monde, quand il bramait demandant : «à boire, à boire, à boire», dont il dit, «que grand tu as supple le gosier». Ce qu'oyant les assistants, dirent que vraiment il devait avoir par ce le nom Gargantua, puisque telle avait été la première parole de son père à sa naissance, à l'imitation et exemple des anciens Hébreux.

Which was performed to a T.