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To: Colt .45
The best thing I know between France and England is the sea. -- Douglas William Jerrold

I have tried to lift France out of the mud. But she will return to her errors and vomitings. I cannot prevent the French from being French. -- Charles de Gaulle

The French are a tremendously verbal race: they kill you with their assurances, their repetitions, their reasons, their platitudes, their formulae, their propositions, their solutions. -- Christina Stead

In France one must adapt oneself to the fragrance of a urinal. -- Gertrude Stein

There's something Vichy about the French. -- Ivor Novello

It's easy to forget how central the French people are in everything we mean when we say Europe. -- John Dos Passos

It is not that the French are not profound, but they all express themselves so well that we are led to take their geese for swans. -- Van Wyck Brooks
36 posted on 03/08/2003 10:03:24 AM PST by Ipberg
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"when it comes down to it,france is a like a blocked toilet,a $hithole filled to the brim of floating turds"-Razbinn
37 posted on 03/08/2003 10:10:15 AM PST by razbinn (I pledge allegiance to the flag of the United States of America,and the republic for which it stands)
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To: Ipberg
"Never was there a country where the practice of governing too much had taken deeper root and done more mischief." Tom Jefferson, and he knew from close experience. The French have not changed. Never will.
42 posted on 03/08/2003 10:33:25 AM PST by Paulus Invictus (Coke make)
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