Proverbs, aphorisms, quotations (English) | by Linux fortune |
C'est magnifique, mais ce n'est pas l'Informatique. -- Bosquet [on seeing the IBM 4341] | |
Honi soit qui mal y pense. [Evil to him who evil thinks.] -- Motto of the Order of the Garter (est. Edward III) | |
Plus ,ca change, plus c'est la m^eme chose. [The more things change, the more they remain the same.] -- Alphonse Karr, "Les Gu^epes" | |
Alea iacta est. [The die is cast] -- Gaius Julius Caesar | |
C'est magnifique, mais ce n'est pas la guerre! [It is magnificent, but it is not war] -- Pierre Bosquet, witnessing the charge of the Light Brigade | |
L'etat c'est moi. [I am the state.] -- Louis XIV | |
Aliquid melius quam pessimum optimum non est. | |
Hodie natus est radici frater. [ Unto the root is born a brother ] |