Francois Rabelais Zitate – Sprüche auf Englisch mit Übersetzung

Zitat des Tages von Francois Rabelais:

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

If you wish to avoid seeing a fool you must first break your looking glass.

Francois Rabelais

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

Francois Rabelais

For he who can wait, everything comes in time.

Francois Rabelais

Tell the truth and shame the devil.

Francois Rabelais

Friends, you will notice that in this world there are many more ballocks than men. Remember this.

Francois Rabelais

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

Francois Rabelais

If the skies fall, one may hope to catch larks.

Francois Rabelais

Everything comes in time to those who can wait.

Francois Rabelais

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

Francois Rabelais

The scent of wine, oh how much more agreeable, laughing, praying, celestial and delicious it is than that of oil!

Francois Rabelais

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

Francois Rabelais

A bellyful is a bellyful.

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

We always long for the forbidden things, and desire what is denied us.

Francois Rabelais

I place no hope in my strength, nor in my works: but all my confidence is in God my protector, who never abandons those who have put all their hope and thought in him.

Francois Rabelais

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

Francois Rabelais

No clock is more regular than the belly.

Francois Rabelais

I won't undertake war until I have tried all the arts and means of peace.

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

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

Francois Rabelais

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

Francois Rabelais

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

Francois Rabelais

How do you know antiquity was foolish? How do you know the present is wise? Who made it foolish? Who made it wise?

Francois Rabelais

Gestures, in love, are incomparably more attractive, effective and valuable than words.

Francois Rabelais

Ignorance is the mother of all evils.

Francois Rabelais

Science without conscience is the death of the soul.

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

In their rules there was only one clause: Do what you will.

Francois Rabelais

Time, which wears down and diminishes all things, augments and increases good deeds, because a good turn liberally offered to a reasonable man grows continually through noble thought and memory.

Francois Rabelais

There are more old drunkards than old physicians.

Francois Rabelais

I drink no more than a sponge.

Francois Rabelais

Nature abhors a vacuum.

Francois Rabelais

A habit does not a monk make.

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

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

Francois Rabelais