All's well in the end, if you've only the patience to wait.

I drink for the thirst to come.

When my soul leaves this human dwelling, I will not consider myself to have completely died, but to pass from one state to another, given that, in you and by you, I remain in my visible image in this world.

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.

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

I've often heard it said, as the common proverb goes, that a fool can teach a wise man well.

Machination is worth more than force.