Famous quotes containing the words france and/or ruled:
“I shall not bring an automobile with me. These inventions infest France almost as much as Bloomer cycling costumes, but they make a horrid racket, and are particularly objectionable. So are the Bloomers. Nothing more abominable has ever been invented. Perhaps the automobile tricycles may succeed better, but I abjure all these works of the devil.”
—Henry Brooks Adams (1838–1918)
“Those who have ruled human destinies, like planets, for thousands of years, were not handsome men.”
—Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803–1882)