26 Famous Quotes by Francois Rabelais
- 4/9/1553
Also Known As:
Alcofrybas Nasier
Francois Rabelais
Franc?ois Rabelais
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About Francois Rabelais
François Rabelais was a major French Renaissance writer, doctor, Renaissance humanist, monk and Greek scholar. He has historically been regarded as a writer of fantasy, satire, the grotesque, bawdy jokes and songs. His best known work is Gargantua and Pantagruel. Rabelais is considered one of the great writers of world literature and among the creators of modern European writing.
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He beat the bushes without taking the birds.
[Fr., [Il] battoit les buissons sans predre les ozillons.]
Failure
Quotes, by Francois Rabelais , Source: Gargantua (ch. II)
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But where are the snows of last year? That was the greatest
concern of Villon, the Parisian poet.
[Fr., Mais ou sont les neiges d'antan? C'estoit le plus grand
soucy qu'eust Villon, le poete parisien.]
Snow
Quotes, by Francois Rabelais , Source: Pantagruel (ch. XIV)
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I would have you call to mind the strength of the ancient giants,
that undertook to lay the high mountain Pelion on the top of
Ossa, and set among those the shady Olympus.
Mountains
Quotes, by Francois Rabelais , Source: Works (bk. IV, ch. XXXVIII)
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You are like the eels of Melun; you cry out before you are
skinned.
[Fr., Vous semblez les anguilles de Melun; vous criez devant
qu'on vous esorche.]
Cowards
Quotes, by Francois Rabelais , Source: Gargantua
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He who has not an adventure has not horse or mule, so says
Solomon.--Who is too adventurous, said Echephron,--loses horse
and mule.
[Fr., Qui ne s'adventure n'a cheval ny mule, ce dist Salomon.--
Qui trop, dist Echephron, s'adventure--perd cheval et mule,
respondit Malcon.]
Adventure
Quotes, by Francois Rabelais , Source: Gargantua (bk. I, ch. 33)
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Between two stools one sits on the ground.
[Fr., S'asseoir entre deux selles le cul a terre.]
Choice
Quotes, by Francois Rabelais , Source: Gargantua (bk. I, ch. II)
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It is folly to put the plough in front of the oxen.
[Fr., Folie est mettre la charrue devant les boeufs.]
Order
Quotes, by Francois Rabelais , Source: Gargantua (ch. XI)
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Petite ville, grand renom.
Small town, great renown.
Cities
Quotes, by Francois Rabelais , Source: Pantagruel (bk. V, ch. XXXV), of Chinon, Rabelais's native town
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"Appetite comes with eating," says Angeston, "but thirst departs
with drinking."
[Fr., "L'appetit vient en mangeant," disoit Angeston, "mais la
soif e'en va en beuvant."]
Appetite
Quotes, by Francois Rabelais , Source: Works (bk. I, ch. V)
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I have known many who could not when they would, for they had not
done it when they could.
Will
Quotes, by Francois Rabelais , Source: Pantagruel (bk. III, ch. XXVII)
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