I drink eternally. For me it is an eternity of drinking, and a drinking up of eternity.

Pantagruelism is a certain gaitey of the spirit consisting in a disdain for the hazards of fortune.

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.

Tell the truth and shame the devil.

Such is the nature and make-up of the French that they are only good at the start. Then they are worse than devils, but, given time, they're less than women.

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

Debts and lies are generally mixed together.