[Xthe17th]

You've probably already seen or heard some of these, but here they all are again in a single post. Feel free to add to the collection.

[JohnGalt]

Number of French Dead in World War II through June 1940: 120,000

Number of American dead in Korean and Vietnam Wars combined: 95,000

Rhetorical value of the fiction of French cowardice: priceless

Courtesy, The American Conservative.

[groanup]

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[martin_fierro]

"The French fight with their feet and f**k with their faces." -- Unknown

[Founding Father]

The most famous French quote, "I surrender."

[Chad Fairbanks]

"France is a dog-hole." - William Shakespeare, (All's Well That Ends Well, c.1603)

"The friendship of the French is like their wine, exquisite but of short duration." - German saying

"In Paris they simply stared when I spoke to them in French; I never did succeed in making those idiots understand their language." - Mark Twain

[IronJack]

"Going to war without France is like going deer hunting without your accordion." --Norman Schwartzkopf

I believe Donald Rumsfeld said this.

[BunnySlippers]

Thanks for the quotes. :)

[Straight Vermonter]

Let me first say that I am French. That is my ancestors hailed form France but came to the new world because life in France was so awful. They carved out a new life for themselves in wildernes of Quebec. Then when Quebec was invaded they were caught defending in the wrong direction (can you say Maginot line, boys and girls? I knew you could). Finally my ancestors were subjected to terrible deprivations and discrimination and decided to come to America.

So to my French cousins across the pond...thanks for nothing.

[cloud8]

France: A relatively small and eternally quarrelsome country in Western Europe, fountainhead of rationalist political manias, militarily impotent, historically inglorious during the past century, democratically bankrupt, Communist-infiltrated from top to bottom.
--William F. Buckley, Jr.

France is the only country where the money falls apart and you can't tear the toilet paper.
--Billy Wilder

What I gained by being in France was learning to be better satisfied with my own country.
--Samuel Johnson

I would have loved it--without the French.
--D. H. Lawrence

Everything is on such a clear financial basis in France. It is the simplest country to live in. No one makes things complicated by becoming your friend for any obscure reason. If you want people to like you, you have only to spend a little money.
--Ernest Hemingway

Frenchmen are like gunpowder, each by itself smutty and contemptible, but mass them together and they are terrible indeed!
--Samuel Taylor Coleridge

The French probably invented the very notion of discretion. It's not that they feel that what you don't know won't hurt you; they feel that what you don't know won't hurt them. To the French lying is simply talking.
--Fran Lebowitz

They aren't much at fighting wars anymore. Despite their reputation for fashion, their women have spindly legs. Their music is sappy. But they do know how to whip up a plate of grub.
--Mike Royko

Every Frenchman wants to enjoy one or more privileges; that's the way he shows his passion for equality.
--Charles de Gaulle

[Compiled by Jon Winokur ISDN 0-453-00565-9]

[raybbr]

Regarding the French: "Cheese eating surrender monkeys." Some show on the radio.

[Atticus]

"France would sell its own sister into prostitution."

-- One of my government professors, circa 1983

[bobg]

FRANCE WAS SMART IN ONE AREA. OVER 70 PERCENT OF THEIR ELECTRICAL POWER IS GENERATED BY NUCLEAR, WHICH IS CLEAN AND SAFE (IS USING OTHER THAN SOVIET MKB TYPE TECHNOLOGY).
NO CO2 EMISSIIONS...LITTLE SOLID WASTER. IF KYOTO TREATY WERE IMPLEMENTED FOR SOME STUPID REASONS, FRANCE WOULD BE AHEAD OF THE ENERGY GAME.
OTHER THAN NUCLEAR POWER THEY STINK.

[Hillarys Gate Cult]

"I'm going to Iowa for an award. Then I'm appearing at Carnegie Hall, it's sold out. Then I'm sailing to France to be honored by the French government -- I'd give it all up for one erection.

- Groucho Marx

[Hillarys Gate Cult]

Looking for a quote which I think was from the movie "Yellowbeard". I'm going from memory but I think it was a British ship captain who said "we must sweep the seas clear of the French until the rest of the world figures out what a great idea it is."

[Hillarys Gate Cult]

Heaven: A place where the French are the cooks, the Germans are the engineers, and the British are the policemen.

Hell: A place where the British are the cooks, the French are the engineers, and the Germans are the policemen.

[TheRedSoxWinThePennant]

[Hillarys Gate Cult]

Q: What does "Maginot" mean in English?

A: Welcome!

[Diogenes]

When all is said and done we shall discover that Saddam, who controls, and dips his fingers into, his country's treasury as if it were his own, gave lots of money to both Chirac (who claims a close, long-standing relationship with the tyrant that dates back to 1975 and before), and Schroder, who comes from extremely modest beginnings, on the guise of contributing to their political campaigns. Saddam must also have had similar arrangements with Putin/Ivanov, given the huge volume of business dealings between the two countries.

[kcar]

The French make the best utitity knives, though. Here's Old Yeller:

http://www.75thrangers.com/french.html

[theFIRMbss]

"France is where all good
Americans go when they
die." -- Chuck Jones cartoon