In Switzerland they had brotherly love, five hundred years…

In Italy, for 30 years under the Borgias, they had warfare, terror, murder and bloodshed, but they produced Michelangelo, Leonardo da Vinci and the…

— Orson Welles

“You know what the fellow said – in Italy, for thirty years under the Borgias, they had warfare, terror, murder and bloodshed, but they…

— Graham Greene

In Italy for thirty years under the Borgias they had warfare, terror, murder and bloodshed but they produced Michelangelo, Leonardo da Vinci and the…

— Orson Welles

Have I got a mother-in-law. She's so neat she puts paper under the cuckoo clock.

— Henny Youngman

“A finely carved Black Forest cuckoo clock hung just to the right of the hutch. Phil would love that, Reuben thought. Phil had once…

— Anne Rice

Since both its national products, snow and chocolate, melt, the cuckoo clock was invented solely in order to give tourists something solid to remember…

— Alan Coren

The principles of the SPD have remained the same for 150 years: democracy, human dignity, justice and inclusion. We will never change those principles.

— Martin Schulz

I get all my ideas in Switzerland near the Forka Pass. There is a little town called Gletch, and two thousand feet up above…

— Dr. Seuss

“Give me a cuckoo clock and a Sep Winner's Self-Instructor for the Banjo, and I'll join you.”

— O. Henry

“There were grandfather clocks and these things that were sort like half-grandfather clocks, and so many cuckoo clocks I suddenly felt like I was…

— Adam Rapp

“The dismaying thing about the classic totalitarian mind is that any given gear, though mutilated, will have at its circumference unbroken sequences of teeth…

— Kurt Vonnegut

“The dismaying thing about the classic totalitarian mind is that any given gear, though mutilated, will have at its circumference unbroken sequences of teeth…

— Nathaniel Hawthorne

“Tockytock, tockytock clumped our Alpine, Edwardian cuckoo clock, slung with strangled, wooden game.”

— Robert Lowell

“Jones wasn’t completely crazy. The dismaying thing about the classic totalitarian mind is that any given gear, though mutilated, will have at its circumference…

— Kurt Vonnegut Jr

“Firstly: don't touch the hands of your cuckoo-clock heart. Secondly: master your anger. Thirdly: never, ever fall in love. For if you do, the…

— Mathias Malzieu