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

I drink for the thirst to come.

If you say to me: "Master, it would seem that you weren't too terribly wise to have written these bits of nonsense and pleasant mockeries," I respond that you are hardly more so in finding amusement in reading them.

It is my feeling that Time ripens all things; with Time all things are revealed; Time is the father of truth.

If you wish to be good "Pantagruelists" (which is to say, live in peace, joy, health, and always dining well), never put too much faith in people who look out through a hole.

I'd gladly do without a valet. I'm never so well treated as when I'm without a valet.

Not everyone is a debtor who wishes to be; not everyone who wishes makes creditors.