The Devil was sick - the Devil a monk would be, The Devil was well the devil a monk was he

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

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.

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.

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

No noble man ever hated good wine.

But where are the snows of last year? That was the greatest concern of Villon, the Parisian poet.