Francois Rabelais Quotations

Appetite comes with eating.

Bring down the curtain, the farce is over

All's well in the end, if you've only the patience to wait.

The remedy for thirst? It is the opposite of the one for a dog bite: run always after a dog, he'll never bite you; drink always before thirst, and it will never overtake you.

I never drink without a thirst, either present or future.

It is better to write of laughter than of tears, for laughter is the property of man.

The farce is finished. I go to seek a vast perhaps.

Giving words [is] an act of lovers.

Such is the nature and make-up of the French that they are only good at the start. Then they are worse than devils, but, given time, they're less than women.

Pantagruelism is a certain gaitey of the spirit consisting in a disdain for the hazards of fortune.