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• Thought I to myself, we shall never come off scot-free.
• It is enough to fright you out of your seven senses.
  -- Francis Rabelais (1495-1553) -- Works, Book v, Chap. xv...
• Necessity has no law. -- Francis Rabelais (1495-1553) -- Works, Book v, Chap. xv
• What cannot be cured must be endured. -- Francis Rabelais (1495-1553) -- Works, Book v, Chap. xv
• How shall I be able to rule over others, that have not full power and command of myself?
  -- Francis Rabelais (1495-1553) -- Works, Book i, Chap. lii...
• It is meat, drink, -- Francis Rabelais (1495-1553) -- Works, Book v, Chap. vii
• We saw a knot of others, about a baker's dozen. -- Francis Rabelais (1495-1553) -- Works, Book v, Chap.
  xxii...
• We have here other fish to fry. -- Francis Rabelais (1495-1553) -- Works, Book v, Chap. xii
• I drink no more than a sponge. -- Francis Rabelais (1495-1553) -- Works, Book i, Chap. v