Posted by Butch Wax on Tuesday, March 25, 2003 at 0:54AM :
In Reply to: Boycott French Goods posted by Big E on Monday, March 24, 2003 at 12:08PM :
France has neither winter nor summer nor morals. Apart from these
drawbacks it is a fine country. France has usually been governed by
prostitutes."
-Mark Twain
"I would rather have a German division in front of me than a French
one behind me."
-- General George S. Patton
"We can stand here like the French, or we can do something about it."
--Marge Simpson
"As far as I'm concerned, war always means failure"
--Jacques Chirac, President of France
"As far as France is concerned, you're right."
--Rush Limbaugh,
"The only time France wants us to go to war is when the German Army is
sitting in Paris sipping coffee."
--Regis Philbin
"The French are a smallish, monkey-looking bunch and not dressed any
better, on average, than the citizens of Baltimore. True, you can sit outside
in Paris and drink little cups of coffee, but why this is more stylish
than sitting inside and drinking large glasses of whiskey I don't know."
--P.J O'Rourke (1989)
"You know, the French remind me a little bit of an aging actress of
the 1940s who was still trying to dine out on her looks but doesn't have
the face for it."
--John McCain, U.S. Senator from Arizona
"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
"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
How many Frenchmen does it take to change a light bulb? One, he holds
the bulb and all of Europe revolves around him.
Next time there's a war in Europe, the loser has to keep France.