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Quotes on French
various quotes ^ | 4/14/03 | various quotes

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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To: freedom44
"Oooh la la! French Ma Ma! 40 kids and no pa pa."
21 posted on 04/14/2003 7:57:07 PM PDT by lilylangtree
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To: lilylangtree
bump
22 posted on 04/14/2003 8:17:10 PM PDT by scooby321
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To: Beck_isright
This line must be added

After all they are Frogs..

23 posted on 04/14/2003 9:21:46 PM PDT by TAP ONLINE
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To: freedom44
"France is a country where the money falls apart and you can't tear the toilet paper." - Billy Wilder

"In Marseilles the make half the toilet soap we consume in America, but the Marseillaise only have a vague theoretical idea of its use, which they have obtained from books of travel" - Mark Twain
24 posted on 04/14/2003 9:31:27 PM PDT by T Minus Four
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To: freedom44
Here's a good one:


"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 (Quoted in Time 8 Dec 67)


25 posted on 04/14/2003 9:52:58 PM PDT by T Minus Four
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To: ThreePuttinDude

26 posted on 04/14/2003 9:59:17 PM PDT by gortklattu
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To: freedom44
"I just love the French. They taste just like chicken."
       -- Hannibal Lecter
27 posted on 04/14/2003 10:45:32 PM PDT by polemikos
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To: freedom44
French Quotes
28 posted on 04/14/2003 11:26:24 PM PDT by The Californian
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