“The humorous story is American, the comic story is English, the witty story is French. The humorous story depends for its effect upon the manner of the telling; the comic story and the witty story upon the matter.”
Mark Twain
“The great themes of Canadian history are as follows: Keeping the Americans out, keeping the French in, and trying to get the Natives to somehow disappear.”
Will Ferguson
“It described a person who is part French and part Spanish. As the French traveled and started settling in different parts of the world, it became a person who was part French and African, French and Native American.”
Terrance Simien
“I can speak French but I cannot understand it.”
“The thing that's wrong with the French is that they don't have a word for entrepreneur”
George W. Bush
“When in 1966 Charles de Gaulle ordered France out of NATO and American troops off French soil, Secretary of State Dean Rusk asked him if that included the American soldiers lying dead in the cemeteries at Normandy and throughout France”
Charles Krauthammer
“I went to a cafe that advertised breakfast anytime, so I ordered French Toast during the Rennaisance.”
Stephen Wright
