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

I never sleep comfortably except when I am at sermon or when I pray to God.

Plain as a nose in a man's face.

Oh how unhappy is the prince served by such men who are so easily corrupted.

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

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

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.