A First Sign of the Beginning of Understanding is the Wish to Die.

A Foreign Secretaryand this applies also to a prospective Foreign Secretaryis always faced with this cruel dilemma. Nothing he can say can do very much good, and almost anything he may say may do a great deal of harm. Anything he says that is not obvious is dangerous; whatever is not trite is risky. He is forever poised between the cliche and the indiscretion.

A Fox entered the house of an actor and, rummaging through all his properties, came upon a Mask, an admirable imitation of a human head. He placed his paws on it and said, What a beautiful head! Yet it is of no value, as it entirely lacks brains.

A French Republican is a Republican who beats up on conservatives and is constantly praising the Democrats and contributing to the massive spending in this country while they go home and pretend otherwise.

A French politician once wrote that it was a peculiarity of the French language that in it words occur in the order in which one thinks them.

A French traveler with a sore throat is a wonderful thing to behold, but it takes more than tonsillitis to prevent a Frenchman from boasting.

A French woman is a perfect architect in dress: she never, with Gothic ignorance, mixes the orders; she never tricks out a snobby Doric shape with Corinthian finery; or, to speak without metaphor, she conforms to general fashion only when it happens not to be repugnant to private beauty.

A Frenchman, Alexis de Tocqueville, came to America more than a century ago and made some astute observations about the American way. He said that we have a misleading idea at the very head of our Constitution: the pursuit of happiness. One can not pursue happiness; if he does he obscures it. If he will proceed with the human task of life, the relocation of the center of gravity of the personality to something greater outside itself, happiness will be the outcome.

A Freudian slip is when you say one thing but mean your mother.

A Friend is one who incessantly pays us the compliment of expecting from us all the virtues, and who can appreciate them in us.

A GOOD old-fashioned sex tape pretty much guarantees you a star on Hollywood Boulevard.

A Gallagher Girl's real grades don't come in pass or fail--they're measured in life or death.

A Genius is someone who can remember to not remember something which may not be worth remembering at that point of time.

A Gentle Knight was pricking on the plaine.

A Gentleman is a man who will pay his gambling debts even when he knows he has been cheated.

A German attack on Russia's ally France would, in reality, be defensive--but the English talked as if Germany was trying to dominate Europe.

A German firm called Friendsurance relies on people forming their own groups, which apply peer pressure to keep claims and costs lower. The result is refunded premiums for customers and profit for the company.

A German immersed in any civilization different from his own loses a weight equivalent in volume to the amount of intelligence he displaces.

A German is someone who cannot tell a lie without believing it himself.