Famous Quotes & Sayings

Yannick Noah

Cracked was a very short warrior, whereas Marley was a pacifist warrior.

Yannick Noah

Your child is happy. What else could you want?

Francois de La Rochefoucauld

We often pardon those that annoy us, but we cannot pardon those we annoy.

Francois de La Rochefoucauld

How is it that we remember the least triviality that happens to us, and yet not remember how often we have recounted it to the same person?

Francois de La Rochefoucauld

The word virtue is as useful to self-interest as the vices.

Francois de La Rochefoucauld

A man is sometimes as different from himself as he is from others.

Francois de La Rochefoucauld

We are strong enough to bear the misfortunes of others.

William John Wills

I see by your letter to my father that you are rather afraid the French may invade England.

Brigitte Boisselier

'I realize they say we are 'wacko' and 'out there, but we are the most rational of all.

David Ginola

The Centre is very important to me; it's about trust - about truth.

The joy of the mind is the measure of its strength.

A sensible woman should be guided by her head when taking a husband, and by her heart when taking a lover.

Florent Malouda

We have to keep the same team spirit in the French Cup.

David Ginola

It has simply been a time of reflection.

David Trezeguet

It is exceptional, I grew up watching Papin, an idol of the French public, ... It means a lot to have the same number of goals as players like him and Fontaine. It shows I have been consistent.

Marcel Carne

The problem is that to be a producer, one must be a gambler, and the greatest French producers were gamblers.

Edmund White

I was too prissy, too refined, too abstemious, too French to be a good American writer.

I tell people, yeah, you'll learn French if you want to stop bleeding.

We are saddened by the statements of the French prime minister and of President (Jacques) Chirac.

Joshua Bell

My teacher, Josef Gingold, a student of the French school, always loved the music of Saint-Saens and Henri Vieuxtemps and all the French repertoire.

One of the greatest joys in my life was giving a lecture in French at the College de France.

Steven Wright

I was at this restaurant. The sign said "Breakfast Anytime." So I ordered French Toast in the Renaissance.

I was shocked when Harold told me about it. An incumbent shouldn't be able to make promises like that to try and win votes... To say he would make sure of R3m in grants and a French Test is ludicrous.

D. H. Lawrence

I would have loved it - without the French

Megan Hilty

I'm a sucker for French fries - I love that they're salty!

Joanne Harris

I have an English identity and a French identity. When I'm in France, I'm more outgoing. And the French part of me cooks, whereas the English part of me writes.

David Blunkett

If I pleaded guilty to a mistake while I was home secretary, it wasn't that I didn't get tough - my God, I put immigration and security officials on French soil for the first time.

If at first you don't succeed, try to hide your astonishment.

I don't think I was at the level I was at the French Open or the other times I played her, but Mary played well,

Voltaire

Judge a man by his questions rather than by his answers.

Lleyton Hewitt

I feel good and hopefully can raise my game for the French Open next week.

I can tell you in Washington we have no better partner right now on most of these issues that occupy the Security Council... than the French government.

French society was a lot more violent in the 1960s and 70s,