Gargantua and Pantagruel, Book 1 Quotes

“I have a remedy against thirst, quite contrary to that which is good against the biting of a mad dog. Keep running after a dog, and he will never bite you; drink always before the thirst, and it will never come upon you.”
― François Rabelais, Gargantua and Pantagruel, Book 1

“Baste! enough! I sup, I wet, I humect, I moisten my gullet, I drink, and all for fear of dying. Drink always and you shall never die.”
― François Rabelais, Gargantua and Pantagruel, Book 1

“He would flay the fox, say the ape's paternoster, return to his sheep, and turn the hogs to the hay. He would beat the dogs before the lion, put the plough before the oxen, and claw where it did not itch.”
― François Rabelais, Gargantua and Pantagruel, Book 1

“Thirst, for who in the time of innocence would have drunk without being athirst? Nay, sir, it was drinking; for privatio praesupponit habitum.”
― François Rabelais, Gargantua and Pantagruel, Book 1

“Eso que los mencionados sarracenos y bárbaros llamaban proezas, debemos nosotros llamar bandidajes y maldades. Mejor”
― François Rabelais, Gargantua y Pentagruel