“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 just love the French. They taste like chicken!”
—- Hannibal Lecter
While speaking to the Hoover Institution today, Secretary Donald Rumsfeld was asked this question:
“Could you tell us why to date at least the Administration doesn’t favor direct talks with the North Korean government? After all, we’re talking with the French.”
The Secretary smiled and replied:
“I’m not going there!”
“I would rather have a German division in front of me than a French one behind me.”
— General 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.”
—- 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
There was a Frenchman, an Englishman and Claudia Schiffer sitting together in a carriage in a train going through Provence. Suddenly the train
went through a tunnel and as it was an old style train, there were no lights in the carriages and it went completely dark. Then there was a kissing
noise and the sound of a really loud slap. When the train came out of the tunnel, Claudia Schiffer and the Englishman were sitting as if nothing had
happened and the Frenchman had his hand against his face as if he had been slapped there.
The Frenchman was thinking: ‘The English fella must have kissed Claudia Schiffer and she missed him and slapped me instead.’ Claudia Schiffer was thinking: ‘The French fella must have tried to kiss me and actually kissed the Englishman and got slapped for it.’ And the Englishman was thinking:
‘This is great. The next time the train goes through a tunnel I’ll make another kissing noise and slap that French bastard again.’
“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)
Next time there’s a war in Europe, the loser has to keep France.
An old saying:
Raise your right hand if you like the French….
Raise both hands if you are French.
“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
REPLACEMENTS FOR THE FRENCH NATIONAL ANTHEM:
“Runaway” by Del Shannon,
“Walk Right In” by the Rooftop Singers,
“Everybody’s Somebody’s” Fool by Connie Francis,
“Running Scared” by Roy Orbison,
“I Really Don’t Want to Know” by Tommy Edwards,
“Surrender” by Elvis Presley,
“Save It For Me” by The Four Seasons,
“Live and Let Die” by Wings,
“I’m Leaving It All Up To You” by Donny and Marie Osmond,
“What a Fool Believes” by the Doobie Brothers,
“Don’t Worry, Be Happy” by Bobby McFerrin
“Raise Your Hands” by Jon Bon Jovi
How many Frenchmen does it take to change a light bulb? One. He holds the bulb and all of Europe revolves around him.
