Rabelais

Famous quotes containing the word rabelais:

“Gargantua, at the age of four hundred four score and forty- four years begat his son Pantagruel, from his wife, named Badebec, daughter of the King of the Amaurotes in Utopia, who died in child-birth: because he was marvelously huge and so heavy that he could not come to light without suffocating his mother.”
—François Rabelais (1494–1553)

“In this mortal life, nothing is blessed throughout.”
—François Rabelais (1494–1553)

“Don’t limp in front of the lame.”
—François Rabelais (1494–1553)