Famous quotes containing the words french and/or open:
“The French are certainly misunderstood:Mbut whether the fault is theirs, in not sufficiently explaining themselves; or speaking with that exact limitation and precision which one would expect ... or whether the fault may not be altogether on our side ... I shall not decide.”
—Laurence Sterne (17131768)
“They never open their mouths without subtracting from the sum of human knowledge.”
—Thomas Brackett Reed (18391902)