Symbologists often remarked that France-a country renowned for machismo, womanizing, and diminutive insecure leaders like Napoleon and Pepin the Short-could read more

Symbologists often remarked that France-a country renowned for machismo, womanizing, and diminutive insecure leaders like Napoleon and Pepin the Short-could not have chosen a more apt national emblem than a thousand-foot phallus.

Pithy sentences are like sharp nails which force truth upon our memory.

Pithy sentences are like sharp nails which force truth upon our memory.

All maxims have their antagonist maxims; proverbs should be sold in pairs, a single one being but a half truth.

All maxims have their antagonist maxims; proverbs should be sold in pairs, a single one being but a half truth.

Maxims are the condensed good sense of nations.

Maxims are the condensed good sense of nations.

It is more trouble to make a maxim than it is to do right

It is more trouble to make a maxim than it is to do right

Maxims are like lawyers who must need to see but one side of the case.

Maxims are like lawyers who must need to see but one side of the case.

A man of maxims only, is like a cyclops with one eye, and that in the back of his head.

A man of maxims only, is like a cyclops with one eye, and that in the back of his head.

Few maxims are true in every respect

Few maxims are true in every respect

They are like the clue in the labyrinth, or the compass in the night.

They are like the clue in the labyrinth, or the compass in the night.