Francois Rabelais

“Believe me, 'tis a godlike thing to lend; to owe is a heroic virtue.”

“It is my feeling that Time ripens all things; with Time all things are revealed; Time is the father of truth.”

“Science without conscience is the death of the soul.”

“A habit does not a monk make.”

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

“Tell the truth and shame the devil.”

“From the gut comes the strut, and where hunger reigns, strength abstains.”

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

“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.”

“A bellyful is a bellyful.”

“Nature abhors a vacuum.”

“To good and true love fear is forever affixed.”

“I drink no more than a sponge.”

“Debts and lies are generally mixed together.”

“Everything comes in time to those who can 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.”

“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.”

“How can I govern others, who can't even govern myself?”

“There are more old drunkards than old physicians.”

“One falls to the ground in trying to sit on two stools.”