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Quand le doigt montre le ciel, l’imbécile regarde le doigt. [When a finger is pointing up to the sky, only a fool looks at the finger.]


Jean-Pierre Jeunet

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FRANCOIS DUC DE LA ROCHEFOUCAULD Finger pointing never got anything done!
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PIERRE TRUDEAU Ambition aspires to descend.
PIERRE CORNEILLE There is nothing unhealthy about educating youngsters about nutrition.
PIERRE DUKAN By speaking of our misfortunes we often relieve them. [Fr., A raconter ses maux souvent on les sou...
PIERRE CORNEILLE I need so much time for doing nothing that I have no time for work.
PIERRE REVERDY He who allows himself to be insulted deserves to be so; and insolence, if unpunished, increases! ...
PIERRE CORNEILLE The shortest follies are the best. [Fr., Les plus courtes folies sont les meilleures.]
PIERRE CHARRON If a thing isn't worth saying, you sing it.
PIERRE BEAUMARCHAIS There is not less wit nor less invention in applying rightly a thought one finds in a book, than in ...
PIERRE BAYLE in the service of Caesar, everything is legitimate.
PIERRE CORRIELLE When we conquer without danger our triumph is without glory.
PIERRE CORNEILLE When there is no peril in the fight there is no glory in the triumph.
PIERRE CORNEILLE He who allows himself to be insulted, deserves to be.
PIERRE CORNEILLE He who receives a benefit should never forget it; he who bestow should never remember it.
PIERRE CHARRON The state has no business in the bedrooms of the nation.
PIERRE TRUDEAU The Past is to be respected and acknoledged, but not to be worshiped. It is our future in which we w...
PIERRE TRUDEAU Some things I never learned to like. I didn't like to kiss babies, though I didn't mind kissing thei...
PIERRE TRUDEAU Let us overthrow the totems, break the taboos. Or better, let us consider them cancelled. Coldly, le...
PIERRE TRUDEAU Canada is a country whose main exports are hockey players and cold fronts. Our main imports are base...
PIERRE TRUDEAU Love is a tyrant sparing none.
PIERRE CORNEILLE Tyrant, step from the throne, and give place to thy master. [Fr., Tyran, descends du trone et fais...
PIERRE CORNEILLE We ask them to think outside the box when they are nominating. It may be the quiet, shy girl no one ...
CHéRI PIERRE Show your children tolerance, humility, respect, honesty, and curiosity towards the universe they ar...
PIERRE MOUELHI Before being able to strive forward, you have to give yourself credit for what you put up with.
PIERRE MOUELHI I recall feeling an almost delicious terror when one day I found myself alone in the midst of tall J...
PIERRE LOTI Alfred Nobel's discoveries are characteristic; powerful explosives can help men perform admirabl...
PIERRE CURIE Television enjoys a de facto monopoly on what goes into the heads of a significant part of the popul...
PIERRE BOURDIEU Flee an enemy who knows your weakness.
PIERRE CORNEILLE In February of 1996, about six months after I created eBay, I started receiving a spate of complaint...
PIERRE OMIDYAR Everyone is born equally capable but lacks equal opportunity.
PIERRE OMIDYAR Because you are a great lord, you believe yourself to be a great genius. You took the trouble to be ...
PIERRE BEAUMARCHAIS One half of my life has put the other half in the grave.
PIERRE CORNEILLE For the first 50 years of your life the food industry is trying to make you fat. Then, the second 50...
PIERRE DUKAN He who forgives readily only invites offense.
PIERRE CORNEILLE I can't walk in a toy store in a foreign country without seeing a kid with a minion backpack.
PIERRE COFFIN How can you tell a story with one frame that, by its simplicity, manages to tell a story, a gag that...
PIERRE COFFIN Revolutions are celebrated when they are no longer dangerous.
PIERRE BOULEZ A good memory is needed after one has lied.
PIERRE CORNEILLE