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.

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

Between two stools one sits on the ground.

Time, which wears down and diminishes all things, augments and increases good deeds, because a good turn liberally offered to a reasonable man grows continually through noble thought and memory.

I never sleep comfortably except when I am at sermon or when I pray to God.

I know of a charm by way of a prayer that will preserve a man from the violence of guns and all manner of fire-weapons and engines but it will do me no good because I do not believe it

You have no obligation under the sun other than to discover your real needs, to fulfill them, and to rejoice in doing so.