François Rabelais

Draw the curtain, the fraud is over.

I am going to seek a great purpose, draw the curtain, the farce is played.

There are more old drunkards than old physicians.

When I drink, I think; and when I think, I drink.

I have known many who could not when they would, for they had not done it when they could.

He 63 ways of getting money, the most common, most honorable ones being staling, thieving, and robbing.

Tell the truth and shame the devil.