Famous quotes containing the words free and/or french:
“Young mothers assemble
At swing and sandpit
Setting free their children.”
—Philip Larkin (1922–1986)
“The terrible tabulation of the French statists brings every piece of whim and humor to be reducible also to exact numerical ratios. If one man in twenty thousand, or in thirty thousand, eats shoes, or marries his grandmother, then, in every twenty thousand, or thirty thousand, is found one man who eats shoes, or marries his grandmother.”
—Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803–1882)