Francois Rabelais Quotes

The hungry and the full sing not one song.

In everything, satiety closely follows the greatest pleasures.

Satiety is a mongrel that barks at the heels of plenty.

Satisfaction, even after one has dined well, is not so interesting and eager a feeling as hunger.

Only a stomach that rarely feels hungry scorns common things.

Too much of a good thing is wonderful.

Leave the table while you still feel you could eat a little more.

I've never eaten just a few bites of things I liked in my life.

After months of want and hunger, we suddenly found ourselves able to have meals fit for the gods, and with appetites the gods might have envied.

Sex is like money; only too much is enough.

From abundance springs satiety.

In love, as in gluttony, pleasure is a matter of the utmost precision.

There are a lot of things that we crave, there are a lot of things that would make us perhaps more fulfilled in a sensory way that we just say no to.

Too much of a good thing can be wonderful.

I like good food, and I'll eat until I'm full.

That if you could acquire enough, accomplish enough, you’d never want to own or do another thing. That if you could eat or sleep enough, you’d never need more. That if enough people loved you, you’d stop needing love.

Satiation, like any state of vitality, always contains a degree of impudence, and that impudence emerges first and foremost when the sated man instructs the hungry one.

Pleasure and satiety live next door to each other.

There is satiety in all things, in sleep, and love-making, in the loveliness of singing and the innocent dance.

A little too much is just enough for me.

Dry happiness is like dry bread. We eat, but we do not dine. I wish for the superfluous, for the useless, for the extravagant, for the too much, for that which is not good for anything.

We very quickly forget about the wonderful things we've got. People lose their excitement because there's too much. Basically we're experiencing nothing, because everything is available to us.

For me, the opposite of scarcity is not abundance. It's enough. I'm enough. My kids are enough.

I'm so full I can't hear.