I've meant to put some jokes and quotes about the French up here for years. Guy Kawasaki provided the push that made this page a reality.

What is the average time it takes the French to win a war? We don't know, it has never been done
    — Unknown

France is a nation devoted to the false hypothesis on which it then builds marvelously logical structures.
    — Gore Vidal

France has neither winter nor summer nor morals—apart from these drawbacks it is a fine country.
    — Mark Twain

France is the only country where the money falls apart, and you can’t tear the toilet paper.
    — Billy Wilder

The French probably invented the very notion of discretion. It’s not that they feel that what you don’t know won’t hurt you; they feel that what you don’t know won’t hurt them. To the French lying is simply talking.
    — Fran Lebowitz

If the French were really intelligent, they’d speak English.
    — Wilfrid Sheed