Because just as arms have no force outside if there is no counsel within a house, study is vain and counsel useless that is not put to virtuous effect when the time calls.
- Francois Rabelais Quote

Believe me, 'tis a godlike thing to lend; to owe is a heroic virtue.
- Francois Rabelais Quote

Debts and lies are generally mixed together.
- Francois Rabelais Quote

Friends, you will notice that in this world there are many more ballocks than men. Remember this.
- Francois Rabelais Quote

From the gut comes the strut, and where hunger reigns, strength abstains.
- Francois Rabelais Quote

Frugality is for the vulgar.
- Francois Rabelais Quote

Gestures, in love, are incomparably more attractive, effective and valuable than words.
- Francois Rabelais Quote

Half the world does not know how the other half lives.
- Francois Rabelais Quote

How do you know antiquity was foolish? How do you know the present is wise? Who made it foolish? Who made it wise?
- Francois Rabelais Quote

I have known many who could not when they would, for they had not done it when they could.
- Francois Rabelais Quote

I place no hope in my strength, nor in my works: but all my confidence is in God my protector, who never abandons those who have put all their hope and thought in him.
- Francois Rabelais Quote

I won't undertake war until I have tried all the arts and means of peace.
- Francois Rabelais Quote

If the skies fall, one may hope to catch larks.
- Francois Rabelais Quote

If you wish to avoid seeing a fool you must first break your looking glass.
- Francois Rabelais Quote

It is better to write of laughter than of tears, for laughter is the property of man.
- Francois Rabelais Quote

It is my feeling that Time ripens all things; with Time all things are revealed; Time is the father of truth.
- Francois Rabelais Quote

It is my opinion that time brings all things to fruition; by time all things are made plain; time is the father of truth.
- Francois Rabelais Quote

Misery is the company of Lawsuits.
- Francois Rabelais Quote

Remove idleness from the world and soon the arts of Cupid would perish.
- Francois Rabelais Quote

Science without conscience is the death of the soul.
- Francois Rabelais Quote

Tell the truth and shame the devil.
- Francois Rabelais Quote

The right moment wears a full head of hair: when it has been missed, you can't get it back; it's bald in the back of the head and never turns around.
- Francois Rabelais Quote

The scent of wine, oh how much more agreeable, laughing, praying, celestial and delicious it is than that of oil!
- Francois Rabelais Quote

There is no truer cause of unhappiness amongst men than, where naturally expecting charity and benevolence, they receive harm and vexation.
- Francois Rabelais Quote

Time, which wears down and diminishes all things, augments and increases good deeds, because a good turn liberally offered to a reasonable man grows continually through noble thought and memory.
- Francois Rabelais Quote

To good and true love fear is forever affixed.
- Francois Rabelais Quote

We always long for the forbidden things, and desire what is denied us.
- Francois Rabelais Quote