So much is a man worth as he esteems himself.

Gestures, in love, are incomparably more attractive, effective and valuable than words.

Plain as a nose in a man's face.

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

Oh thrice and four times happy... those who plant cabbages.

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.

One falls to the ground in trying to sit on two stools.