"On a pas de pétrole mais on a des idées"/(We don't have oil, we have ideas);

"Champions du Monde des matchs amicaux" /World Champion in International Friendlies (no longer operative after 1998);

"La révolution est comme une bicyclette : quand elle n'avance plus, elle tombe." "Eddy Mercx!"..."Non, Che Guevara"

Competing myth from the right, dating from the Revolution forward (they never seem to come up with new, creative ways of expressing their disappointment with progress):

"La France dans la spirale du déclin"/The inexorable

Fai de bèn a Bertrand, te lou rendra en cagant