Where have all the cool people gone?

My new idol: Banville.
"Those who never do anything can never do anything wrong."

"It is dangerous to be right in matters on which the established authorities are wrong. "
- Voltaire  (Teaching this to my son everyday with spankings!)

"True valor is to do in secrecy what you could just have easily done before others."
La Rochefoucauld. (This doesn't apply to masturbating does it?)

"We say that time is a great teacher. It's too bad that it also kills all its students."
Berlioz. (Was he really French to have such a  morbid sense of humor?)

"It's just one step from the sublime to the ridiculous."
Napoléon. (France seems to have been running in a marathon since the revolution!!)

"We were given speech to hide our thoughts."
Talleyrand.  (Now I understand why the French are all Thieves and Liars!)(And to aide in using the jedi mind trick my young padawan - You will now take off all your clothes and pray to me!)

"True paradise is the one that you have lost."
Proust. (And i thought no one understood!)

"Playing on face book all day will make the day more enjoyable."
Du Bois  (Wisdom, Baby, Heed it my young apprentice and you will find your path to the invincibility of the dark side!)

"There are two ways to become unhappy: to desire what you don't have or to have finally gotten what you have desired."
Louys. (I'm waiting...)  -  (I'm preordained to be unhappy for eternity you see, That's why this joke is funny, Its all in the irony, Too bad he didn't have any sure fire recipes for happiness, maybe that's why no one has ever heard of him.)

"To be seen as an idiot in the eyes of an imbecile is a pleasure worthy of a fine gourmet."
Courteline. (Now He didn't work in Paris did he? - You see it gets a bit tiring when you are surrounded by idiots, That's why this joke is funny)

"Genius is patience."
Buffon. (I think I'm going to be the smartest dead person that never did anything great!)(where's the second "o"?)

"Mad are labelled those who do not take part in the common madness."
Roland.  (And I'm as angry as a roughly shaved beaver's arse on a weekend in Hamsterdam! ! Where's my chainsaw mother fuckers!!!! HahHAha!!!)

http://www.associatedcontent.com/article/7477/50_famous_french_quotations.html