Friday, May 12, 2006

Friday dinner party conversation stopper

Do it in French for effect or affect:

"A proprement parler, il n'y a pas de certitude; il y a seulement des hommes certains."

["Properly speaking, there is no certainty; there are only people who are certain."]

- Charles Renouvier

4 comments:

MT said...

Certainment!

The Heretik said...

Il n'y a pas d'une femme certaine?

helmut said...

No. Women, as we all know, are not certain at all. May the Good Lord bless 'em.

That quote is from 1859.

MT said...

We've come a long way, baby [cough].