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1 posted on
03/08/2003 7:36:58 AM PST by
Xthe17th
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To: Xthe17th
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.
2 posted on
03/08/2003 7:42:52 AM PST by
JohnGalt
To: Xthe17th
bump
3 posted on
03/08/2003 7:43:06 AM PST by
groanup
To: Xthe17th
"The French fight with their feet and f**k with their faces." -- Unknown
4 posted on
03/08/2003 7:47:19 AM PST by
martin_fierro
(SOUTH American Idol)
To: Xthe17th
The most famous French quote, "I surrender."
To: Xthe17th
"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
6 posted on
03/08/2003 7:51:00 AM PST by
Chad Fairbanks
("We've got, you know, armadillos in our trousers. It's quite frightening really. The size.")
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"Going to war without France is like going deer hunting without your accordion." --Norman Schwartzkopf I believe Donald Rumsfeld said this.
7 posted on
03/08/2003 7:51:45 AM PST by
IronJack
To: Xthe17th
Thanks for the quotes. :)
To: Xthe17th
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.
To: Xthe17th
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]
11 posted on
03/08/2003 8:04:33 AM PST by
cloud8
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Regarding the French: "Cheese eating surrender monkeys." Some show on the radio.
12 posted on
03/08/2003 8:06:40 AM PST by
raybbr
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"France would sell its own sister into prostitution."
-- One of my government professors, circa 1983
14 posted on
03/08/2003 8:19:31 AM PST by
Atticus
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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.
17 posted on
03/08/2003 8:31:20 AM PST by
bobg
(Bob G.)
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"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
20 posted on
03/08/2003 8:35:49 AM PST by
Hillarys Gate Cult
("Read Hillary's hips. I never had sex with that woman.")
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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."
22 posted on
03/08/2003 8:40:18 AM PST by
Hillarys Gate Cult
("Read Hillary's hips. I never had sex with that woman.")
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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.
23 posted on
03/08/2003 8:45:14 AM PST by
Hillarys Gate Cult
("Read Hillary's hips. I never had sex with that woman.")
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Q: What does "Maginot" mean in English?
A: Welcome!
25 posted on
03/08/2003 9:09:18 AM PST by
Hillarys Gate Cult
("Read Hillary's hips. I never had sex with that woman.")
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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.
30 posted on
03/08/2003 9:34:24 AM PST by
Diogenes
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33 posted on
03/08/2003 9:48:56 AM PST by
kcar
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"France is where all good
Americans go when they
die." -- Chuck Jones cartoon
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