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Quotes on French
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| 4/14/03
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Posted on 04/14/2003 7:16:30 PM PDT by freedom44
I would rather have a German division in front of me than a French one behind me." - George S. Patton
"Going to war without France is like going deer hunting without your accordion." - Norman Schwartzkopf
"We can stand here like the French, or we can do something about it." - Dwight D. Eisenhower
"As far as I'm concerned, war always means failure." - Jacques Chirac, President of France
"As far as France is concerned, you're right." - Bob Dole
"The only time France wants us to go to war is when the German Army is sitting in Paris sipping coffee." - Regis Philbin
"I don't know why people are surprised that France won't help us get Saddam out of Iraq. After all, France wouldn't help us get the Germans out of France!" - Jay Leno
"The last time the French asked for 'more proof' it came marching into Paris under a German flag." - David Letterman
"You know why the French don't want to bomb Saddam Hussein? Because he hates America, he loves mistresses and wears a beret. He is French, people." - Conan O'Brien
"War without France would be like...uh...World War II." - Carrot Top
"What do you expect from a culture and a nation that exerted more of its national will to fighting against Disney World and Big Macs than the Nazis?" - Dennis Miller
"It is important to remember that the French have always been there when they needed us." - John F. Kennedy
TOPICS: Foreign Affairs; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: antifrenchhumor
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posted on
04/14/2003 7:16:30 PM PDT
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posted on
04/14/2003 7:20:05 PM PDT
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posted on
04/14/2003 7:20:36 PM PDT
by
freedom44
To: freedom44
Yet another opportunity to post this:
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posted on
04/14/2003 7:21:21 PM PDT
by
annyokie
(provacative yet educational reading alert)
To: freedom44
How do you break a Frenchman's finger? Punch him in the nose.
Why do the french have big fingers?
They have big noses.
How do you sink a French battleship?
Put it in the water
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posted on
04/14/2003 7:23:51 PM PDT
by
TFMcGuire
(Either you're an American or a liberal!)
To: freedom44
FRENCH Mark Twain
In Paris they just simply opened their eyes and stared when we spoke to them in French! We never did succeed in making those idiots understand their own language.
- Innocents Abroad
The objects of which Paris folks are fond--literature, art, medicine and adultery.
- The Corpse speech, 1879
France has neither winter nor summer nor morals--apart from these drawbacks it is a fine country.
- Mark Twain's Notebook
There is nothing lower than the human race except the French.
- quoted by Carl Dolmetsch, Our Famous Guest
It has always been a marvel to me--that French language; it has always been a puzzle to me. How beautiful that language is! How expressive it seems to be! How full of grace it is! And when it comes from lips like those [of Sarah Bernhardt], how eloquent and how limpid it is! And, oh, I am always deceived--I always think I am going to understand it.
- Mark Twain, a Biography
M. de Lamester's new French dictionary just issued in Paris defines virtue as: "A woman who has only one lover and don't steal."
- quoted in A Bibliography of Mark Twain, Merle Johnson
I like to look at a Russian or a German or an Italian--I even like to look at a Frenchman if I ever have the luck to catch him engaged in anything that ain't delicate.
- Extract from Captain Stormfield's Visit to Heaven
It is human to like to be praised; one can even notice it in the French.
- "What Paul Bourget Thinks of Us"
In certain public indecencies the difference between a dog & a Frenchman is not perceptible.
- Notebook #17, October 1878 - February 1879
It appears that at last census that every man in France over 16 years of age & under 116, has at least 1 wife to whom he has never been married. French novels, talk, drama & newspaper bring daily & overwhelming proofs that the most of the married ladies have paramours. This makes a good deal of what we call crime, and the French call sociability.
- Notebook #18, Feb.- Sept. 1879
France has usually been governed by prostitutes.
- Notebook #18, Feb.- Sept. 1879
French are the connecting link between man & the monkey.
- Notebook #18, Feb.- Sept. 1879
Trivial Americans go to Paris when they die.
- Notebook #18, Feb.- Sept. 1879
It is the language for lying compliment, for illicit love & for the conveying of exquisitely nice shades of meaning in bright graceful & trivial conversations--the conveying, especially of double-meanings, a decent & indecent one so blended as--nudity thinly veiled, but gauzily & lovelily.
- Notebook #18, Feb.- Sept. 1879
A Frenchman's home is where another man's wife is.
- Notebook #18, Feb.- Sept. 1879
An isolated & helpless young girl is perfectly safe from insult by a Frenchman, if he is dead.
- Notebook #20, Jan. 1882 - Feb. 1883
A dead Frenchman has many good qualities, many things to recommend him; many attractions--even innocencies. Why cannot we have more of these?
- Notebook #20, Jan. 1882 - Feb. 1883
To: freedom44
I spit in your direction!
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posted on
04/14/2003 7:25:35 PM PDT
by
SirChas
To: freedom44
Quotes on Franch.What the fruks a Franch?;-)
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posted on
04/14/2003 7:28:16 PM PDT
by
StriperSniper
(Frogs are for gigging)
To: freedom44
"War without France would be like...uh...World War II." - Carrot Top I hate this annoying red headed nerd and his AT&T commercials but this quote made me LOL.
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posted on
04/14/2003 7:28:39 PM PDT
by
Burkeman1
(B)
To: freedom44
On another note. Just when did the French become castrates? I think they got one cut off in the Franco-Prussian war of 1871- the other they lost in WWI.
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posted on
04/14/2003 7:31:44 PM PDT
by
Burkeman1
(B)
To: Burkeman1
How true that is.
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posted on
04/14/2003 7:33:07 PM PDT
by
SirChas
(110151040115157155041)
To: freedom44
One day, an American, an Englishman and a Frenchman were walking along the beach. Suddently the American stubs his toe on an old antique oil lamp, picks it up and rubs it to see if it says anything. Suddenly a giant genie appears and tells the three "THANK YOU, THANK YOU FOR RELEASING ME FROM MY PRISON, I SHALL GRANT EACH OF YOU ONE WISH OF WHAT EVER YOU DESIRE". The American, not wasting any time says "I want to be the wealthiest man on earth with dozens of beautiful women in a harem to surround me until I die". POOF. His dream comes true and he has a harem of a dozen beautiful women and he's worth billions.
The Englishman starts to speak when suddenly and rudely the Frenchman darts in front of him and says," it is my turn because my nation has suffered so much". He goes on, "I want a wall, so strong and thick to prevent anyone from these other evil nations of the world to visit or invade my beeeutifool homeland of France ever again". POOF, he is zapped into Paris and a large wall appears around France.
Finally, the Brit is asked by the genie, "what is it you desire English???" The Englishman thinks and says, "may I ask one question before I request my wish?". "Of course" replies the genie. The Brit says, "tell me about this wall please", in a polite manner. The genie says, "it is 150 feet high and 30 feet thick and impenetrable to any known weapon or explosive of mankind".
The Englishman pauses then says "fill it full of water".
V
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posted on
04/14/2003 7:34:16 PM PDT
by
Beck_isright
("QUAGMIRE" - French word for "unable to find anyone to surrender to")
To: SirChas
I spit in your direction! I pisse in his direction.
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posted on
04/14/2003 7:34:18 PM PDT
by
jackbill
To: Burkeman1
One of my favorites
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posted on
04/14/2003 7:35:18 PM PDT
by
ThreePuttinDude
(The only thing worse than a Frenchman, is a Frenchman from Canada)
To: freedom44
"If it weren't for the US, right now the French would be goose-stepping around Paris and eating spetzel three times a day." -- Jay Severin, talk host on WTKK, 96.9 FM, Boston
To: freedom44
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posted on
04/14/2003 7:37:57 PM PDT
by
Leisler
To: freedom44
AMERICAN: "Do you speak German ?"
FRENCHMAN: "No."
AMERICAN: "You're welcome."
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posted on
04/14/2003 7:38:00 PM PDT
by
ChadGore
(289,233,354 people did not protest the war.)
To: freedom44
France:
Sung to the Tune War
France What is it good for?
Absolutely nothing! Uh-huh, yeah
France, hoah, yeah!
What is it good for?
Absolutely nothing! Say it again y'all!
France, hoah, good God!
What is it good for?
Absolutely nothing! Listen to me.
France, I despise.
To: freedom44
Quotes on Franch Franch? We was bought from the Franch & I don't like it. I wish we was bought from some good country like the Anglish. We are havin' our bicentennial freedom from the Franch down here in Louisiana. It was back in 1803 that we was Franch but we got bought & now we're 'merican! It's good we ain't Franch no more.
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posted on
04/14/2003 7:43:28 PM PDT
by
jrushing
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