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.

Don't limp in front of the lame.

In this mortal life, nothing is blessed throughout.

Everything comes in time to those who can wait.

A bellyful is a bellyful.

Petite ville, grand renom. Small town, great renown.

I drink eternally. For me it is an eternity of drinking, and a drinking up of eternity.