Swiss Quotes

• Cows are my passion. What I have ever sighed for has been to retreat to a Swiss farm, and live entirely surrounded by cows - and china.

  Charles Dickens

  Passion, Agriculture, Literature

  Charles Dickens (2016). “Dombey and Son”, p.292, Xist Publishing

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• WikiLeaks will not comply with legally abusive requests from Scientology any more than WikiLeaks has complied with similar demands from Swiss banks, Russian offshore stem-cell centers, former African kleptocrats, or the Pentagon.

  Julian Assange

  Cells, Freedom Of Speech, Wikileaks

  "No Secrets". The New Yorker, www.newyorker.com. June 9, 2010.

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• By an application of the theory of relativity to the taste of readers, today in Germany I am called a German man of science, and in England I am represented as a Swiss Jew. If I come to be represented as a bête noire, the descriptions will be reversed, and I shall become a Swiss Jew for the Germans and a German man of science for the English!

  Albert Einstein

  Science, Men, Germany

  "Einstein On His Theory". The Times (London), November 28, 1919.

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• If only God would give me some clear sign! Like making a large deposit in my name at a Swiss bank.

  Woody Allen

  Funny, Witty, Money

  New Yorker, 5 Nov. 1973

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• A U.N. study claims the happiest country in the world is Switzerland. When asked why they're so happy, Swiss people couldn't answer because their hands were counting money and their mouths were full of chocolate.

  Conan O'Brien

  Country, Hands, People

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• As the Swiss inscription says: Sprechen ist silbern, Schweigen ist golden,- "Speech is silvern, Silence is golden;" or, as I might rather express it, Speech is of Time, Silence is of Eternity.

  John Keats

  Time, Silence, Speech

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• The Swiss have an interesting army. Five hundred years without a war. Pretty impressive. Also pretty lucky for them. Ever seen that little Swiss Army knife they have to fight with? Not much of a weapon there. Corkscrews. Bottle openers. ‘Come on, buddy, let’s go. You get past me, the guy in the back of me, he’s got a spoon. Back off, I’ve got the toe clippers right here.

  Jerry Seinfeld

  Funny, War, Fighting

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• My love life is like a piece of Swiss cheese; most of it's missing, and what's there stinks.

  Joan Rivers

  Memorable, Love Life, Missing

  "Not Forgotten", www.nytimes.com. June 8, 2015.

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• The Germans and Austrians are very polite, the Swiss are very reserved and the Spanish usually kiss me. The Brits write me letters.

  Donna Leon

  Writing, Kissing, Letters

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• I think the chance of finding beauty is higher if you don't work on it directly. Beauty in architecture is driven by practicality. This is what you learn from studying the old townscapes of the Swiss farmers.

  Peter Zumthor

  Thinking, Chance, Architecture

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• TV can reach broad audiences, mass audiences, niche audiences; it can be local, regional, national; it can be spots, sponsorship, interactive. It can be anything you want it to be. I tend to think of TV as the Swiss Army knife of media, it's got something for everybody.

  Nick Manning

  Army, Thinking, Media

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• I think Google should be like a Swiss Army knife: clean, simple, the tool you want to take everywhere.

  Marissa Mayer

  Army, Simple, Thinking

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• What first attracted me to doing Swiss Army Man was just how mental it was - how insane and wonderful and original the script was.

  Daniel Radcliffe

  Army, Men, Insane

  Source: www.buzzfeed.com

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• The Pope is guarded by the Swiss guard who stand proudly in pajamas and silly hats.

  Eddie Izzard

  Silly, Hats, Pajamas

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• They say that if the Swiss had designed these mountains they'd be rather flatter.

  Paul Theroux

  Funny, Climbing, Mountain

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• We wouldn't want to be like the Swiss, would we? That would be awful! We'd be rich!

  Nigel Farage

  Would Be, Want, Awful

  "Ukip's Nigel Farage ridicules David Cameron's EU referendum speech" by Esther Addley, www.theguardian.com. January 23, 2013.

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• I think it's kind of great, to be honest. I'll never do another film [like Swiss Army Man] where I get to talk about those things, so I might as well enjoy it while I can.

  Daniel Radcliffe

  Army, Men, Thinking

  Source: www.avclub.com

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• The engine driving the Kelly system is the "law of large numbers." In a 1713 treatise on probability, Swiss mathematician Jakob Bernoulli propounded a law that has been misunderstood by gamblers (and investors) ever since.

  William Poundstone

  Law, Numbers, Misunderstood

  William Poundstone (2010). “Fortune's Formula: The Untold Story of the Scientific Betting System That Beat the Casinos and Wall Street”, p.102, Macmillan

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• A city like London was always going to be a paradox, the best of it so very riddled with the opposite, so Swiss-cheesed with moral holes.

  China Mieville

  Cities, Opposites, London

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• The Swiss are well armed and enjoy great freedom.

  Niccolo Machiavelli

  Enjoy, Wells, Great Freedom

  Niccolo Machiavelli (2017). “The Prince”, p.40, Race Point Publishing

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• Twenty-three cents may not sound like a lot to someone with a Swiss bank account.

  Lilly Ledbetter

  Twenties, Sound, Three

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• [T]he Swiss people are the best practitioners of the ideals of non-aggression. The Swiss national government posts are parttime positions. Most decisions are made at the canton (state) level. Swiss per capita income is the highest in the world, showing that non-aggression pays. How did the Swiss come to adopt a relatively non-aggressive constitution in an aggressive world? In the mid-1800s, they imitated our constitution and stuck with it!

  Mary Ruwart

  Government, People, Decision

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• The Swiss are not a people so much as a neat, clean, quite solvent business.

  William Faulkner

  People, Clean, Neat

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• Only that Swiss in the heart want still a king or at least a strong Upper House of Parliament. Swiss long themselves for less democracy and more dictatorship.

  Peter Bichsel

  Strong, Kings, Heart

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• God took the beauty of the Bay of Naples, the Valley of the Nile, the Swiss Alps, the Hudson River Valley, rolled them into one and made San Francisco Bay.

  Fiorello H. La Guardia

  Rivers, San Francisco, Hudson River

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