"Swedes, we are not - Russians, we do……" — Unknown Author

More Finnish Quotes

This quote is filed under Finnish Quotes, one of 18 quotes in that category. Here are a few more:

• Nobody respects a country with a poor army, but everybody respects a country with a good army. I raise my… — Joseph Stalin
• A government institution called the Finnish Film Foundation funds filmmaking there, and I wrote several screenplays but never got any… — Renny Harlin
• I think there are very few invisible musical instrument players out there who can claim the chops and sheer perseverance… — John Hodgman
• Finnish is not a language, it is a way of setting at the end of the bench with your fur… — Paavo Haavikko
• They have a word in Finnish called sisu, which basically means guts. It’s the strongest word in the Finnish language.… — Arthur Lydiard
• The subject of Finnish poetry ought to have a special interest for the Japanese student, if only for the reason… — Lafcadio Hearn
• Finnish companies tend to be very traditional, not taking many risks. Silicon Valley is completely different: people here really live… — Linus Torvalds
• It [discovering Finnish] was like discovering a wine-cellar filled with bottles of amazing wine of a kind and flavour never… — J.R.R. Tolkien
• Love leaped out in front of us like a murderer in an alley leaping out of nowhere, and struck us… — Mikhail Bulgakov
• (Finland is a famously introverted nation. Finnish joke: How can you tell if a Finn likes you? He's staring at… — Susan Cain
• My mother birthed three children and she adopted myself and another African-American son. My adoptive parents were Finnish. I grew… — Michael Franti
• Tommy Wirkola is Norwegian but has a Finnish surname - he comes from the one of the northernmost countries in… — Unknown Author

See all 18 Finnish Quotes »