Best Swiss Sayings
89 Swiss quotes by 82 unique authors
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I live in a Swiss village so small, if you sneeze everyone knows.
— Geraldine Chaplin
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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…
— Peter Zumthor
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I've learned that when someone does something very kind and refuses payment, giving them an engraved Swiss Army knife is never refused!
— Christine Lavin
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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…
— Peter Bichsel
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The Swiss are not a people so much as a neat, clean, quite solvent business.
— William Faulkner
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Twenty-three cents may not sound like a lot to someone with a Swiss bank account.
— Lilly Ledbetter
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The Swiss are well armed and enjoy great freedom.
— Niccolo Machiavelli
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Cows are my passion. What I have ever sighed for has been to retreat to a Swiss farm, and live entirely surrounded by cows -…
— Charles Dickens
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You know, in 1975 I couldn't get a job in New York City because I was American. The kitchens were predominantly run by French, Swiss,…
— Emeril Lagasse
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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
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One of my favorite things to cook is fondue. I'm Swiss. It's a great social meal.
— Ryan Seacrest
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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…
— Jerry Seinfeld
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On Saturday, he ate through one piece of chocolate cake, one ice-cream cone, one pickle, one slice of Swiss cheese, one slice of salami, one…
— Eric Carle
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The Swiss are a neat and an industrious people, none of whom is under seventy-five years of age.
— Dorothy Parker
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They shot me. (Talon) No, bud. They turned you into Swiss cheese. (Nick)
— Sherrilyn Kenyon
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Time. Time. What is time? Swiss manufacture it, French hoard it, Italians squander it, Americans say it is money. Hindus say it does not exist.…
— Truman Capote
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He rolled his eyes. "First, my Dad's Korean and my mom was Swedish. Second, I totally suck at math. I don't like cuckoo clocks or…
— Kelley Armstrong
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He slung off his backpack. He'd managed to grab a lot of supplies at the Napa Bargain Mart: a portable GPS, duct tape, lighter, superglue,…
— Rick Riordan
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Willy Loman: I don't want change, I want Swiss cheese!
— Arthur Miller
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Evolution is a theory with more holes than a Dutch dam of swiss cheese.
— Eoin Colfer
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The Theory of Evolution has more holes in it than a dam made out of Swiss cheese.
— Eoin Colfer
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I feel all agitated, like one of those snow globes you see resting peacefully on shop counters. I was perfectly happy being an ordinary, dull…
— Sophie Kinsella
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As a child growing up in a grey-skied Yorkshire village, I would occasionally happen upon a Bollywood movie on the television. After a few minutes…
— Simon Beaufoy
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A witticism in an airport security line is like a Swiss tap - turn it on, and you instantly find yourself in hot water.
— Shashi Tharoor
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I love the German and the Swiss people for their many fine traits of character. I love their language that is so exacting and yet…
— Joseph B. Wirthlin
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