Debts and lies are generally mixed together.

- Francois Rabelais

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

- Francois Rabelais

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

For he who can wait, everything comes in time.

- Francois Rabelais

There are more old drunkards than old physicians.

- Francois Rabelais

How shall I be able to rule over others, that have not full power and command of myself?

- Francois Rabelais

Science without conscience is the death of the soul.

- Francois Rabelais

When undertaking marriage, everyone must be the judge of his own thoughts, and take counsel from himself.

- Francois Rabelais

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.

- Francois Rabelais

Misery is the company of lawsuits.

- Francois Rabelais

Tell the truth and shame the devil.

- Francois Rabelais

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

- Francois Rabelais

A bellyful is a bellyful.

- Francois Rabelais

Remove idleness from the world and soon the arts of Cupid would perish.

- Francois Rabelais

When I drink, I think; and when I think, I drink.

- Francois Rabelais

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

- Francois Rabelais

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

- Francois Rabelais

Half the world does not know how the other half lives.

- Francois Rabelais

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

- Francois Rabelais

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

- Francois Rabelais