Francois Rabelais Quotes

Good wine is a good familiar creature if it be well used.

Excitement is not enjoyment: in calmness lies true pleasure. The most precious wines are sipped, not bolted at a swallow.

Accept what life offers you and try to drink from every cup. All wines should be tasted; some should only be sipped, but with others, drink the whole bottle.

Wine, like life, is meant to be enjoyed.

No noble man ever hated good wine.

The greatest man is he who chooses the Right with invincible resolution, who resists the sorest temptations from within and without, who bears the heaviest burdens cheerfully, who is calmest in storms and most fearless under menace and frowns, whose reliance on truth, on virtue, on God, is most unfaltering. I believe this greatness to be most common among the multitude, whose names are never heard.

A great man’s actions are determined, if not foreordained, by his character.

I like clothes. And I think it's OK to think about clothes just so long as you also think about other things. I'm not interested in clothes to the point where they'll push other things out of my mind; I just see them as a way of expressing yourself, and a pleasure, really.

I'm not a real big wine drinker. I enjoy wine from a distance.

Too much of anything is bad, but too much Champagne is just right.

Dost thou think, because thou art virtuous, there shall be no more cakes and ale?

Gardening is not something to get on your high horse about or be overwhelmed by. Either you enjoy it or you don't.

Wine gives great pleasure; and every pleasure is of itself a good. It is a good, unless counterbalanced by evil.

A glass of good wine is a gracious creature, and reconciles poor mortality to itself and that is what few things can do.

Great men are never cruel without necessity.

We thought of wine as something as healthy and normal as food and also as a great giver of happiness and well being and delight.

Enjoying the bouquet while resisting the wine." -Edward

Great men are sincere.

Not every great man is a grand human being.

A person with increasing knowledge and sensory education may derive infinite enjoyment from wine.

Good wine is a necessity of life for me.

Wine makes all things possible.

It is not greedy to enjoy a good dinner, any more than it is to enjoy a good concert. But I do think there is something greedy about trying to enjoy the dinner and the concert at the same time.