If your cook is French, your butler English, your house German, your salary American and your wife Japanese, you are a happy man - but what a fate, if your cook is English, your butler German, your house French, your salary Japanese and your wife American.
I forgot to post a winner. Sorry. I almost gave it to Womble because his sig meets the criteria, and he almost won before I even announced the topic. Those forum fellows speaking Francais might have won, but I don't know what they said. Well, although Spick's wasn't especially clever, it might have won because it was after all an aphorism. But Rome is not a country, Spick.
Take it away Glance-a-lot.