Francois Rabelais Quotes
Appetite comes with eating.
Rabelais, François. "Book 1, Chapter 5." The Complete Works of François Rabelais, translated by Donald M. Frame, University of California Press, 1991.
Salisbury had always been opposed to colonial adventurism and was opposed to the jingo segment of English society associated with his Colonial Secretary Joseph Chamberlain. Nonetheless, Britain became more embroiled in Africa. Salisbury’s explanation was in French: “L’appetit vient en mangeant.”
In the 1986 Chernobyl disaster, there was concern that U.S. West Coast rainwater might have been radioactively contaminated. The doctor was asked if he would drink West Coast rainwater.
François Rabelais (UK: /ˈræbəleɪ/ RAB-ə-lay, US: /ˌræbəˈleɪ/ -LAY, French: [fʁɑ̃swa ʁablɛ]; born between 1483 and 1494; died 1553) was a French Renaissance writer, physician, Renaissance humanist, monk and Greek scholar. He has historically been regarded as a writer of satire, the grotesque, bawdy jokes, and songs.
