“ Mathematicians are like Frenchmen: whatever you say to them they translate into their own language, and forthwith it is something entirely different. ”
- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe- Copy
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“ An Englishmen thinks seated; a Frenchmen standing; an American pacing, an Irishman, afterwards. ”
- Austin O’Malley- Copy
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“ Frenchmen have an unlimited capacity for gallantry and indulge it on every occasion. ”
- Jean Baptiste Moliere- Copy
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“ A bad liver is to a Frenchman what a nervous breakdown is to an American. Everyone has had one and everyone wants to talk about it. ”
- Art Buchwald- Copy
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“ And the line up for the final of the Women's 400 metres hurdles includes three Russians, two East Germans, a Pole, a Swede and a Frenchman. ”
- David Coleman- Copy
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“ It is unthinkable for a Frenchman to arrive at middle age without having syphilis and the Cross of the Legion of Honor. ”
- Andre Gide- Copy
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“ There is only one cure for gray hair. It was invented by a Frenchman. It is called the guillotine. ”
- P.G. Wodehouse- Copy
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“ America represents something universal in the human spirit. I received a letter not long ago from a man who said, 'You can go to Japan to live, but you cannot become Japanese. You can go to France to live and not become a Frenchman. You can go to live in Germany or Turkey, and you won't become a German or a Turk… ”
- Ronald Reagan- Copy
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“ The average American may not know who his grandfather was. But the American was, however, one degree better off than the average Frenchman who, as a rule, was in considerable doubt as to who his father was. ”
- Mark Twain- Copy
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