First impressions are always right, especially when they’re bad.
(Unknown) #quote

He who asks is a fool for five minutes,
but he who does not ask remains a fool forever.
(Chinese Proverb) #quote

Do not regret growing older. It is a privilege denied to many.
(Unknow) #quote

The smaller the understanding of the situation,
the more pretentious the form of expression.
(John Romano) #quote

Don’t look back, unless it’s a good view.
(Unknown) #quote

It's happier to be sometimes cheated than not to trust.
(Samuel Johnson) #quote

People who don't take risks generally make about 2 big mistakes a year,
people who do take risks generally make about 2 big mistakes a year.
(Peter Drucker) #quote

I don't like to commit myself about heaven and hell - you see, I have friends in both places.
(Mark Twain) #quote

Quand on m'appelle Monsieur le Ministre,
j'ai toujours l'impression que Jack Lang va surgir derrière moi !
(Frédéric Mitterrand) #quote

Mme Thatcher est au restaurant entouré de ses ministres.

Le maître d’hôtel : Vous avez fait votre choix ?
Mme Thatcher : Un steak !
Le maître d’hôtel : Et pour les légumes !
Mme Thatcher, après avoir regardé les autres convives : Ils prendront un steak aussi !

The question is not “What is the solution?”
but “How do we live without a solution?”
(Moshe Dayan) #quote

I've been on a calendar but I have never been on time.
(Marilyn Monroe) #quote

Rien n’est plus dangereux qu’une idée, quand on n’a qu’une idée.
(Alain, Propos sur la religion, mais applicable plus généralement ...) #quote

We should keep so close to facts
that we never have to remember the second time what we said the first time.
(F. Marion Smith) #quote

Comment is free but facts are sacred.
(Charles P. Scott) #quote

Whoever gossips to you will gossip about you.
(Spanish Proverb) #quote

Do not repeat anything you will not sign your name to.
(Unknown) #quote

Life is like a game of cards.
The hand you are dealt is determinism; the way you play it is free will.
(J.Nehru) #quote

If you can't explain it simply,
you don't understand it well enough.
(Albert Einstein) #quote

If you're not willing to risk it all,
then you don't want it bad enough.
(Unknow) #quote

Don't judge each day by the harvest you reap
but by the seeds that you plant.
(Robert Louis Stevenson) #quote

Il suivait son idée. C’était une idée fixe,
et il était surpris de ne pas avancer.
(Jacques Prévert)

I will not let anyone walk through my mind with their dirty feet.
(Mahatma Gandhi)

You must have long term goals to keep you from being frustrated by short term failures.
(Charles C. Noble) #quote

You may be deceived if you trust too much,
but you will live in torment if you don't trust enough.
(Frank Crane) #quote

Sachez vous éloigner car, lorsque vous reviendrez à votre travail, votre jugement sera plus sûr.
(Leonard de Vinci) #quote

La chute n’est pas un échec;
l’échec est de rester là où on est tombé.
(Socrate) #quote

There are few ironclad rules of diplomacy but to one there is no exception. When an official reports that talks were useful, it can safely be concluded that nothing was accomplished.
(John Kenneth Galbraith), #quote

On the keyboard of life, always keep one finger on the escape key.
(Dilbert's rules of order)

Un père Jésuite demande son chemin à Alphonse Allais, réponse de l'humoriste : vous ne trouverez jamais mon père, c'est tout droit. #quote

Life is really simple, but we insist on making it complicated.
(Confucius)

Diplomacy is the art to conceal with one hundred words
what one could say with only one word.
(Saint-John Perse)

Definition of Statistics: The science of producing unreliable facts from reliable figures.
(Evan Esar)

The most important thing in communication

is to hear what isn't being said.
(Peter F. Drucker)

We confess our little faults to persuade people

that we have no large ones.
(Francois de La Rochefoucauld)

Le mieux est l'ennemi du bien.
(Proverbe français)

There are no rules here - we're trying to accomplish something.
(Thomas Edison)

The Obstacle is the Path.
(Zen Proverb)

Laugh and the world laughs with you, snore and you sleep alone.
(Anthony Burgess)

Take time to deliberate;
but when the time for action arrives, stop thinking and go in.
(Andrew Jackson)

L'on ne peut pas traîner quelqu'un dans la boue
sans se salir un peu soi-même.
(Anonyme)

The way to succeed is to double your failure rate.
(Henry Ford)

I was looking for a few words to describe a situation that could soon be a huge mess and heard about : SNAFU / TARFUN / FUBAR

SNAFU - Situation Normal, All Fucked Up - Thing are running normally.
TARFUN - Things Are Really Fucked Up Now - Houston, we have a problem.
FUBAR - Fucked Up Beyond All Recognition - Burn it to the ground and start over from scratch; it's totally destroyed.

This day started out SNAFU, but then my machine went all TARFUN. The place was totally FUBAR after that.

Life is like a box of chocolates, you never know what you're gonna get.
(in film Forrest Gump )

Mais que diable allait-il faire à cette galère !
(Géronte in Les Fourberies de Scapin de Molière)

Logic is a big hammer, use it to smash contradictions.
(Unknown)

Life is not a matter of holding good cards,
but sometimes, playing a poor hand well.
(Jack London)

- Quelle différence y a t-il entre Sarko et un yaourt ?
- Au bout d'un certain temps, le yaourt développe une certaine forme de culture !
(Anonyme, vu aussi avec américain au lieu de Sarko, on remplace en fait avec ce qu’on veut ..)

Des gens intelligents, il y en a 5 à 6% ;
moi je fais campagne auprès des cons.
(Georges Frêche)

Une touche de rose, vert, rouge :
c’est le retour de la gouache plurielle.
(Luc Chatel)

There's no substitute for guts.
(Paul Bear Bryant)

Elysée & Guignol sur un même panneau ? Oui c'est possible dans Paris, proche de l'Elysée. Et suivant le contexte l'indication prend de la saveur :)

Life's tragedy is that we get old too soon and wise too elate.
(Benjamin Franklin)

A la fin d'un dîner organisé par Winston Churchill, le maître d'hôtel présente la cave à cigare aux invités.
L'un d'entre eux en prends cinq et déclare : c'est pour la route.
Et Churchill lui répond : merci d'être venu d'aussi loin.

Mon bon Monsieur
Apprenez que tout flatteur
Vit aux dépens de celui qui l'écoute.
(Le Corbeau et renard, Jean de la Fontaine)

After the game, the king and pawn go into the same box.
(Italian proverb)

The beginning is the most important part of the work.
(Platon)

Until the lions have their historians,
tales of hunting will always glorify the hunter.
(African proverb)