123 quotes
Patience, if it were our sovereign lady's will, we would be as tall as you; well, we shall when she pleases.
Gargantua and Pantagruel (1532)
Here enter you, pure, honest, faithful, true
Expounders of the Scriptures old and new.
Gargantua and Pantagruel (1532)
Come, pluck up a good heart; speak the truth and shame the devil.
Gargantua and Pantagruel (1532)
Looking as like...as one pea does like another.
Gargantua and Pantagruel (1532)
We will take the good-will for the deed.
Gargantua and Pantagruel (1532)
In all companies there are more fools than wise men, and the greater part always gets the better of the wiser.
Gargantua and Pantagruel (1532)
Do not believe what I tell you here any more than if it were some tale of a tub.
Gargantua and Pantagruel (1532)
I never follow the clock: hours were made for man, not man for hours.
Gargantua and Pantagruel (1532)
You are Christians of the best edition, all picked and culled.
Gargantua and Pantagruel (1532)
Above the pitch, out of tune, and off the hinges.
Gargantua and Pantagruel (1532)
He always looked a given horse in the mouth.
Gargantua and Pantagruel (1532)
Spare your breath to cool your porridge.
Gargantua and Pantagruel (1532)
All their life was spent not in laws, statutes, or rules, but according to their own free will and pleasure.
Gargantua and Pantagruel (1532)
Subject to a kind of disease, which at that time they called lack of money.
Gargantua and Pantagruel (1532)
Do you esteem men by their number rather than by their valour and prowess?
Gargantua and Pantagruel (1532)
He freshly and cheerfully asked him how a man should kill time.
Gargantua and Pantagruel (1532)
Nothing is so dear and precious as time.
Gargantua and Pantagruel (1532)
What harm in learning and getting knowledge even from a sot, a pot, a fool, a mitten, or a slipper.
Pantagruel (1532)
Always open all gates and roads to your enemies, and rather make for them a bridge of silver, to get rid of them.
Believe me that it is a godlike thing to lend; to owe is a heroic virtue.
Pantagruel (1532)