Francois Rabelais Quotes About Monk

Quotes about: Monk

• A habit does not a monk make.

  Francois Rabelais

  Doe, Monk, Habit

• The Devil was sick - the Devil a monk would be, The Devil was well the devil a monk was he

  Francois Rabelais

  Evil, Sick, Would Be

  Francois Rabelais (2006). “Gargantua and Pantagruel: Easyread Comfort Edition”, p.101, ReadHowYouWant.com

• If you understand why a monkey in a family is always mocked and harassed, you understand why monks are rejected by all--both old and young.

  Francois Rabelais

  Religion, Monkeys, Young

• How comes it that you curse, Frere Jean? It's only, said the monk, in order to embellish my language. They are the colors of Ciceronian rhetoric.

  Francois Rabelais

  Order, Color, Language

• Nature abhors a vacuum.

  Francois Rabelais

  Nature, Hate, Science

  "Gargantua", Chapter V, as quoted in Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations, p. 544-48, 1922.

• The dress does not make the monk.
  [Fr., L'habit ne fait le moine.]

  Francois Rabelais

  Dresses, Doe, Appearance

• Indeed, said the monk, a mass, a matins, and vespers well rung are half-said.

  Francois Rabelais

  Hypocrisy, Religion, Half

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