702 French Quotes for You to Enjoy

The old adage about giving a man a fish versus teaching him how to fish has been updated by a reader: Give a man a fish and he will ask for tartar sauce and French fries! Moreover, some politician who wants his vote will declare all these things to be among his 'basic rights.' Thomas Sowell

Man Vote Rights Old Will Giving Politician Has-Been Some About Give Moreover He French French Fries Him Reader How Fish Been His Versus Fries Updated Wants Old Adage Declare Ask Teaching Who Among Basic Things Sauce Adage Basic Rights

I went to a restaurant that serves 'breakfast at any time'. So I ordered French Toast during the Renaissance. Steven Wright

Time Breakfast Restaurant Renaissance French Any Ordered Toast Serve

I don't have much patience for people who are self-conscious about the act of eating, and it irritates me when someone denies themselves the pleasure of a bloody hunk of steak or a pungent French cheese because of some outdated nonsense about what's appropriate or attractive. Anthony Bourdain

Me Patience People Cheese Appropriate Pleasure Pungent Hunk Outdated Some Eating About Someone Steak Self-Conscious French Attractive Because Nonsense Denies Bloody Irritates Themselves Much Act Who

Palestine belongs to the Arabs in the same sense that England belongs to the English or France to the French. Mahatma Gandhi

Sense France Arabs French Same England English Palestine Belongs

My social philosophy may be said to be enshrined in three words: liberty, equality and fraternity. Let no one, however, say that I have borrowed by philosophy from the French Revolution. I have not. My philosophy has roots in religion and not in political science. I have derived them from the teachings of my Master, the Buddha. B. R. Ambedkar

Religion Science Equality Words Liberty Political Three Master Revolution Philosophy Enshrined Say Fraternity Borrowed No-One Buddha French French Revolution Said However Political Science May Social Them Roots Derived Teachings

I went into a French restaraunt and asked the waiter, 'Have you got frog's legs?' He said, 'Yes,' so I said, 'Well hop into the kitchen and get me a cheese sandwich.' Tommy Cooper

Me You Cheese Hop Kitchen He French Well Said Got Waiter Yes Get Frog Legs Sandwich Asked

The consequences of things are not always proportionate to the apparent magnitude of those events that have produced them. Thus the American Revolution, from which little was expected, produced much; but the French Revolution, from which much was expected, produced little. Charles Caleb Colton

Events Revolution Consequences Those Magnitude Thus French French Revolution Always Expected American Which Little Them Much Produced American Revolution Apparent Things

I love French stuff. Mmmm, french fries. Denis Leary

Love Stuff French French Fries Fries

How could you have a soccer team if all were goalkeepers? How would it be an orchestra if all were French horns? Desmond Tutu

You Would Horns Could French How Were Orchestra Soccer Team

The difference between the Parthenon and the World Trade Center, between a French wine glass and a German beer mug, between Bach and John Philip Sousa, between Sophocles and Shakespeare, between a bicycle and a horse, though explicable by historical moment, necessity, and destiny, is before all a difference of imagination. Guy Davenport

Beer World Wine Bicycle Before Imagination Philip Bach Destiny Though John Shakespeare Horse Glass Between French Trade Historical German Difference Center Mug Moment World Trade Necessity World Trade Center

My mother likes what I cook, but doesn't think it's French. My wife is Puerto Rican and Cuban, so I eat rice and beans. We have a place in Mexico, but people think I'm the quintessential French chef. Jacques Pepin

People Mother Wife Think Eat Beans French Likes Cuban Chef Mexico Quintessential Place Rican Rice Cook Puerto Puerto Rican

Quebec City is the most European of any city in North America; they speak French all the time. There is a part of town called Old Quebec which is really like being in France. The architecture is just gorgeous, food, shopping. I'd say Quebec City is the most beautiful city in North America I've seen. Sebastian Bach

Beautiful Time Food Architecture Shopping Speak Most Beautiful Gorgeous Old Seen France Say City Part Beautiful City Town Like Most French Quebec North North America America Any Just Being Which Really European

Mayonnaise: One of the sauces which serve the French in place of a state religion. Ambrose Bierce

Religion State French Mayonnaise Place Which Serve

I was born into a Turkish family that had acquired Italian citizenship. Many members of the family subsequently became British, French, Brazilian, and German, so there was a bit of everything. It was not uncommon for people in the family to speak seven languages: English, French, Ladino, Italian, Turkish, Arabic, and even Greek. Andre Aciman

Family People Speak Seven Everything Bit Members Arabic Citizenship Born Uncommon Had French Became Italian German Greek Subsequently Brazilian Turkish Acquired Languages English Many Even British

People say 'Why would you learn Dutch? Nobody speaks it. Why not French?' Even the Dutch say that to me! I say because I want to live here, I think it's only common courtesy that I speak the language. Anthony Geary

Me You People Speak Language Live Think Say Would People Say Only Nobody French Learn Because Courtesy Dutch Common Want Speaks Even Why Why Not Here

I had a job at this French restaurant, and I hated it. I don't like serving; I don't like getting people ketchup. Chris Pine

People Job Restaurant Hated Had Like French Getting Serving Ketchup

I think Spain will always remain inspirational, and I think French cuisine will continue to be very French and yet very relevant with its time and keep evolving. But the last thing you want for it is to become too trendy and confusing. It has too much history. Daniel Boulud

Inspirational Time History You Too Much Will Become Think Too Trendy Relevant Evolving Remain French Always Cuisine Continue Very Want Spain Much Confusing Keep Thing Last

'Escargot' is French for 'fat crawling bag of phlegm'. Dave Barry

Bag French Crawling Fat

Somehow, the French got this idea of the starving artist. Very romantic, except it's not so romantic for the starving artist. David Lynch

Starving Somehow Except Idea French Got Very Artist Romantic

Albert Camus's 'La Peste' - 'The Plague' - had an enormous impact on me when I read it in high school French class, and I chose my senior yearbook quote from it. In college, I wrote a philosophy class paper on Camus and Sartre, and again chose my yearbook quote from 'La Peste.' Drew Gilpin Faust

Mainly I was able to perform with music - I played the French horn, I would sing, and I was a drummer in the pipe band. So I think it was a way to show off. Ewan McGregor

Music Band Show Off Think Way Would Able Horn Mainly Perform Drummer Sing French French Horn Off Pipe Show Played

In matters of commerce the fault of the Dutch Is offering too little and asking too much. The French are with equal advantage content, So we clap on Dutch bottoms just twenty per cent. George Canning

Fault Too Much Matters Too Clap Per Advantage Equal French Content Commerce Offering Dutch Just Cent Little Much Asking Twenty

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