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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me when someone denies themselves the pleasure of a bloody hunk of steak or a pungent French cheese because of some outdated nonsense about what's appropriate or attractive.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Outdated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
French fries kill more people than guns and sharks, yet nobody's afraid of French fries.
Robert Kiyosaki
People
Sharks
Guns
More
More People
Nobody
French
French Fries
Fries
Than
Afraid
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
Most of the Ten Commandments are negative. The purpose of law is not to mandate good behavior. That concept comes from the French Revolution.
Randall Terry
Good
Law
Behavior
Negative
Revolution
Ten
Ten Commandments
Purpose
Most
Concept
French
French Revolution
Commandments
Mandate
Good Behavior
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 feel French is very close to Urdu. Both languages are beautiful. Sadly, their beauty is lost in translation.
Amisha Patel
Beautiful
Beauty
Lost
Translation
Both
Feel
Sadly
French
Very
Close
Urdu
Languages
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
Only peril can bring the French together. One can't impose unity out of the blue on a country that has 265 different kinds of cheese.
Charles de Gaulle
Together
Cheese
Country
Different Kinds
Unity
Out
Kinds
Only
Peril
French
Impose
Blue
Different
Bring
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
Me
Class
School
College
Enormous
Philosophy
Paper
High
Impact
High School
Had
French
Wrote
Read
Yearbook
La
Senior
Quote
Again
Plague
Sartre
Chose
Albert
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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