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«I've always wanted to go to Switzerland to see what the army does with those wee red knives.»
«In Italy for thirty years under the Borgias they had warfare, terror, murder and bloodshed but they produced Michelangelo, Leonardo da Vinci and the Renaissance. In Switzerland, they had brotherly love; they had five hundred years of democracy and peace and what did that produce? The cuckoo clock.»
Author: Orson Welles
| Keywords:
bloodshed, brotherly, brotherly love, clock, cuckoo, cuckoos, cuckoo clock, das, da Vinci, five hundred, Italy, Leonardo, Leonardo da, Leonardo da Vinci, Michelangelo, Renaissance, Switzerland, the Renaissance, Thirty Years, warfare
«In Switzerland they had brotherly love, five hundred years of democracy and peace, and what did they produce? The cuckoo clock!»
Author: Simone Weil
(Activist, Mystic, Philosopher)
| About:
Country,
Democracy,
Peace
| Keywords:
brotherly, brotherly love, cuckoo, cuckoos, cuckoo clock, five hundred, Switzerland
«Switzerland is a small, steep country, much more up and down than sideways, and is all stuck over with large brown hotels built on the cuckoo style of architecture.»
Author: Ernest Hemingway
| About:
Architecture
| Keywords:
brown, cuckoo, cuckoos, hotels, sideways, steep, stuck, Switzerland, up and down
«My rank is the highest known in Switzerland: I'm a free citizen.»
«Senator John Kerry released his plan today to eliminate the deficit. He said all we have to do is find a really rich country like Switzerland and marry it.»
Author: Jay Leno
(Comedian, Host)
| Keywords:
deficit, Deficits, eliminate, John Kerry, Kerry, released, senator, Senator John Kerry, Switzerland
«Switzerland is simply a large, lumpy, solid rock with a thin skin of grass stretched over it.»
Author: Mark Twain
(Humorist, Lecturer, Writer)
| Keywords:
lumpy, solid, stretched, Switzerland, thin-skinned, thin
«In Switzerland, on a high mountain, not far from Lucerne, there is a lake they call Pilate's Pond, which the Devil has fixed upon as one of the chief residences of his evil spirits»
Author: Martin Luther
(Priest, Scholar)
| Keywords:
lake, lucerne, not far, Pilate, pond, ponds, residence, residences, Switzerland, the pond
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