“I never follow the clock: hours were made for man, not man for hours.”
Les heures sont faictez pour l'homme, & non l'homme pour les heures.
Source: Gargantua and Pantagruel (1532–1564), Gargantua (1534), Chapter 39 (frère Iean des Entommeures).
“You have there hit the nail on the head.”
Source: Gargantua and Pantagruel (1532–1564), Third Book (1546), Chapter 34.
“Let us fly and save our bacon.”
Source: Gargantua and Pantagruel (1532–1564), Fourth Book (1548, 1552), Chapter 55.
En toutes compagnies il y a plus de folz que de sages, et la plus grande partie surmonte tousjours la meilleure.
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Source: Gargantua and Pantagruel (1532–1564), Fourth Book (1548, 1552), Chapter 38.
“What cannot be cured must be endured.”
Source: Gargantua and Pantagruel (1532–1564), Fifth Book (1564), Chapter 15.
“I drink no more than a sponge.”
Source: Gargantua and Pantagruel (1532–1564), Gargantua (1534), Chapter 5.
“What is got over the Devil's back is spent under the belly.”
Source: Gargantua and Pantagruel (1532–1564), Fifth Book (1564), Chapter 11.
“Scampering as if the Devil drove them.”
Source: Gargantua and Pantagruel (1532–1564), Fourth Book (1548, 1552), Chapter 62.
“We saw a knot of others, about a baker's dozen.”
Source: Gargantua and Pantagruel (1532–1564), Fifth Book (1564), Chapter 22.
“You are Christians of the best edition, all picked and culled.”
Source: Gargantua and Pantagruel (1532–1564), Fourth Book (1548, 1552), Chapter 50.
Source: Gargantua and Pantagruel (1532–1564), Fifth Book (1564), Chapter 15.
“Above the pitch, out of tune, and off the hinges.”
Source: Gargantua and Pantagruel (1532–1564), Fourth Book (1548, 1552), Chapter 19.
Source: Gargantua and Pantagruel (1532–1564), Fifth Book (1564), Chapter 20 : How the Quintessence cured the sick with a song
“By robbing Peter he paid Paul, … and hoped to catch larks if ever the heavens should fall.”
Source: Gargantua and Pantagruel (1532–1564), Gargantua (1534), Chapter 11.
“This flea which I have in mine ear.”
Source: Gargantua and Pantagruel (1532–1564), Third Book (1546), Chapter 31.
“The Devil was sick,—the Devil a monk would be;
The Devil was well,—the devil a monk was he.”
Source: Gargantua and Pantagruel (1532–1564), Fourth Book (1548, 1552), Chapter 24.
Prologue.
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“You shall never want rope enough.”
Author's prologue.
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“I believe he would make three bites of a cherry.”
Source: Gargantua and Pantagruel (1532–1564), Fifth Book (1564), Chapter 28.