Franglais Examples Quotes & Sayings

Sheep run to the slaughterhouse, silent and hopeless, but at least sheep never vote for the butcher who kills them or the people who devour them. More beastly than any beast, more sheepish than any sheep, the voter names his own executioner and chooses his own devourer, and for this precious 'right' a revolution was fought. — Octave Mirbeau

More than 90% of Chinese believe themselves to be Han. Of course, such a vast population is derived from countless different races, but because China has enjoyed such a long and continuous history as a polity, there has been thousands of years of mixing, melding and assimilation. — Martin Jacques

I didn't understand the living fascination with a world of perfected dead. — Darin Bradley

America when will we end the human war?
Go fuck yourself with your atom bomb — Allen Ginsberg

Beauty, which is what is meant by art, using the word in its widest sense, is, I contend, no mere accident to human life, which people can take or leave as they choose, but a positive necessity of life. — William Morris

The city became for me the ideal of what I wanted to be as a grown-up. Friendly, but never gushing, cool but not frigid or distant, distinguished without the awful stiffness. — Maya Angelou

There's nothing I like better than a good book discussion with someone who can hold up his end of the argument. — Stephen King

Time is born in the eyes, everybody knows that. — Julio Cortazar

The more wisdom we know the more we may earn. Those who seek to learn more of their craft shall be richly rewarded. — George S. Clason

The chances of achieving literary performance are, to the decimal point, the odds against becoming fully human.
That means one hundred and fifty million to one.
Which means one hundred and fifty million in one. — Allan Gurganus

No human being should wear tight satin. — Michael Kors

God's first Smile was born
The day humanity awoke
To His Light. — Sri Chinmoy

I had rather be an oyster than a man, the most stupid and senseless of animals. — George Berkeley

Tulips are the only flowers that continue to grow, up to an inch or more, after they're cut. — Sarah Jio

But here's my secret, what I think has gotten my husband and I through over twenty years, my sister through almost thirty, and my folks through almost over fifty: humor. We laugh at ourselves, each other, at pretty much everything. — Rachel Thompson