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French Quotes and Sayings

Here, we wish to present quotes from famous French people or about France as well as French sayings; we would also like to include kids' words.

Sayings:

'Il faut battre le fer pendant qu'il est chaud'.  
(Strike while the iron is hot.)

'Pierre qui roule n'amasse pas mousse'.
(A rolling stone gathers no moss.)

'La fin justifie les moyens'.
(The end justifies the means).

Quotations:

'Le secret fondamental des couples heureux c'est qu'ils sont formés de deux celibataires heureux.'

(The fundametal secret about happy couples is that they are formed of 2 happy single people)
(heard on the French radio, 2006)

Noël

If a visitor to our site has an interesting and relevant quote or saying, please e mail it to us and we will try our
 best to include it on this page.