Half the world does not know how the other half lives.

A crier of green sauce.

Do you know what Agelisas said, when he was asked why the great city of Lacedomonie was not girded with walls? Because, pointing out the inhabitants and citizens of the city, so expert in military discipline and so strong and well armed: "Here," he said, "are the walls of the city," meaning that there is no wall but of bones, and that towns and cities can have no more secure nor stronger wall than the virtue of their citizens and inhabitants.

I owe much; I have nothing; the rest I leave to the poor.

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

A man of good sense always believes what he is told, and what he finds written down.

I never drink without a thirst, either present or future.