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

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

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.

It's a shame to be called "educated" those who do not study the ancient Greek writers.

Parisians are so besotted, so silly and so naturally inept that a street player, a seller of indulgences, a mule with its cymbals,a fiddler in the middle of a crossroads, will draw more people than would a good Evangelist preacher.

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

Appetite comes with eating.