The appetite grows with eating.

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.

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

Bring down the curtain, the farce is over

Few and signally blessed are those whom Jupiter has destined to be cabbage-planters. For they've always one foot on the ground andthe other not far from it. Anyone is welcome to argue about felicity and supreme happiness. But the man who plants cabbages I now positively declare to be the happiest of mortals.

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

If the head is lost, all that perishes is the individual; if the balls are lost, all of human nature perishes.