Swiss Quotes: top 88 famous quotes about Swiss

Swiss Quotes & Sayings

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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

See this Swiss army knife, Lawless! It's gotta magnifying glass and a million blades but I only need one, so step right the fuck back! — Jonathan Dunne

The common argument that men are naturally polygamous and women naturally monogamous is as full of holes as Swiss cheese. — Frans De Waal

I'll splurge on Toblerone. I love Toblerone with the Swiss chocolate and nougat in it. — Jordin Sparks

If only God would give me some clear sign! Like making a large deposit in my name at a Swiss Bank. — Woody Allen

You know there's only two things more beautiful than a good gun
a Swiss watch or a woman from anywhere. — Borden Chase

The Swiss are a neat and an industrious people, none of whom is under seventy-five years of age. — Dorothy Parker

Our lives are Swiss, so still- so cool — Emily Dickinson

The entire world will be in nuclear war, and only the Swiss will be going, 'what's that noise?' — Robin Williams

Mom spoke to us in Swiss when we were little. — Isabel Lucas

Our life is a journey, through winter and night, We look for our way, in a sky without light. (Song of the Swiss Guards, 1793) — Louis-Ferdinand Celine

Common thieves like Ludlow were simply another London — Deborah J. Swiss

There is something about African time that even the Swiss find a challenge. — Nicholas Drayson

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

They should make new ways to better design buildings and books. The computer was the end of Swiss typography! — Emil Ruder

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

The Swiss can be very difficult. — Yves Behar

It was not the lover she regretted,' wrote a Swiss imperial tutor, who understood their relationship. 'It was the friend. — Simon Sebag Montefiore

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

My dad's in banking, my mum manages the American branch of a Swiss vitamin company; they're really busy, but they still come to all my premieres. — Danielle De Niese

I like the Swiss because by and large they are more humane than the other people aming whom I have lived. — Albert Einstein

They shot me. (Talon) No, bud. They turned you into Swiss cheese. (Nick) — Sherrilyn Kenyon

No one really likes Switzerland, except those who prefer cleanliness to life. — Trevanian

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

We broke into Mir using a Swiss Army knife. Never leave the planet without one. — Chris Hadfield

Nostalgia used to be called mal du Suisse - the Swiss sickness. — Christian Rudder

I live in a Swiss village so small, if you sneeze everyone knows. — Geraldine Chaplin

The running shoe ... could be called the Swiss Army knife of footwear ... What appeal is there to a shoe whose only selling point is comfort? — Mimi Pond

I eat Swiss cheese from the inside out. — Steven Wright

I have said that the sanction regime is like Swiss cheese - that meant that they weren't very effective. — George W. Bush

Evolution is a theory with more holes than a Dutch dam of swiss cheese. — Eoin Colfer

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

I eat swiss cheese. But I only nibble on it. I make the holes bigger. — Steven Wright

Thou shalt make no image, no abstraction, including none of THE American, THE Swiss, THE German. — Karl Barth

The only interesting thing that can happen in a Swiss bedroom is suffocation by feather mattress. — Dalton Trumbo

Did I really want to call myself Swiss if it meant shutting the door on less "perfect" residents? — Clare O'Dea

One of my favorite things to cook is fondue. I'm Swiss. It's a great social meal. — Ryan Seacrest

Toronto is a kind of New York operated by the Swiss. — Peter Ustinov

Google is my rapid response research assistant. It's the Swiss Army knife of information retrieval. — Lloyd Grove

She would only make me take my seat if I didn't act calm and Swiss about it all. — Bill Bryson

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

No ordinary effort stops the wheel.
In sleep it spins without resistance.
Passively, falling deeper, lacking the will to activate any change. — Stephen Demone

Swiss Cheese is a rip-off It's the only cheese I can bite into and miss — Mitch Hedberg

I want to be remembered for Swiss Family Robinson and Old Yeller. I think Swiss is probably my favorite film. — Tommy Kirk

Magicians have taken something intrinsically profound and made it look trivial. — Jamy Ian Swiss

Leafy greens such as romaine lettuce, kale, collards, Swiss chard, and spinach are the most nutrient-dense of all foods. — Joel Fuhrman

Believing would be easier if God would show himself by depositing a million dollars in a Swiss bank account in my name — Woody Allen

It was one of those happy days that God grants us sometimes on earth to give us an idea of the bliss of heaven. — Johann David Wyss

We have to still develop the Ikea group. We need many billions of Swiss francs to take on China or Russia. — Ingvar Kamprad

Swiss cheese model' of accidents. Imagine a series of safety — Tim Harford

Educating a beautiful woman is like pouring honey into a fine Swiss watch: everything stops. — Kurt Vonnegut

The man who has no inner life is the slave of his surroundings. — Henri Frederic Amiel

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

There seems to be a human instinct for prayer. Swiss theologian Karl Barth calls it our 'incurable God-sickness.' — Timothy Keller

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

Gay people could do anything. They were like Swiss army knives. — Sherman Alexie

It's interesting that Swiss banks also hide their assets from the Swiss by using offshore bank structuring. — Julian Assange

We both like Marlboro Reds, both eat pastrami and Swiss, and both have holes in our hearts big enough to swallow us whole. What the fuck? — C.M. Stunich

She was so full of holes now, she was like a Swiss cheese. — Danielle Steel

My Personality
unfolding before you
like a Swiss Army knife. — Katerina Stoykova Klemer

prepackaged slices or the Supermarket swiss (which has the texture but no where near the flavor, of rubber gloves) — Robert Farrar Capon

My mother spent a month in a Swiss hospital after a terrible ski accident. — Christopher Buckley

The Swiss are the only nation to make the Germans appear inefficient, the French undiplomatic and the Texans poor. — Paul Bilton

I asked "What do you even do with a chimera?"
"What wouldn't you do with a chimera?" Jeff asked. "They're like the Swiss Army knife of animals. — Chloe Neill

My father's Peruvian! I actually have a lot of family in Cuzco. I'm also Swiss, Alaskan, French, Spanish and Italian. — Q'orianka Kilcher

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

As fussy as they were about cleanliness and order, the Swiss seemed to Anna to be rather lax about graffiti. — Jill Alexander Essbaum

In promoting Sino-Swiss economic ties, transnational companies, such as Nestle,played an active role. — Wu Bangguo

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

The Theory of Evolution has more holes in it than a dam made out of Swiss cheese. — Eoin Colfer

Your neck smells like cheese,' I said.
'Oh,' He said, 'that's my cheese cologne. I have a whole selection. Chedder, American, Swiss. — Kristin Walker

I'm a virgin, Ariel," I whispered conspiratorially. "Sealed up like a Swiss bank account. — Shelly Crane

You look at our borders, they're like swiss cheese, everybody pours in. — Donald Trump

We need to a new word to describe Swiss happiness. — Eric Weiner

Mimes were invented to give magicians someone to look down on — Jamy Ian Swiss

Willy Loman: I don't want change, I want Swiss cheese! — Arthur Miller

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

Mysteriously, almost unaccountably, my family had ended up in the trees, sort of like the Swiss Family Robinson. — Richard Preston

The Swiss are well armed and enjoy great freedom. — Niccolo Machiavelli

Most Swiss banks do have a whistleblower program, but they use it to punish those who avail themselves of it. — Herve Falciani

They like to take all this money from sin, build big universities to study in, sing Amazing Grace all the way to the Swiss banks. — Bob Dylan

Life is like a nice fresh batch of Swiss cheese. Note to self: savor the holes, too, like the spaces between musical notes. — Anne Lamott

I like wearing gloves made of cheese (Swiss), and then going around asking elderly men if they want a knuckle sandwich. — Jarod Kintz

The Swiss are well armed and very free. — Niccolo Machiavelli

For some reason, there is a purity to the Swiss Alps - a certain energy - that is very reminiscent of my snowboarding experiences in the Himalayas. — Frederick Lenz

You women have more holes than swiss cheese. — Charles Bukowski

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 so expressive. — Joseph B. Wirthlin

Swiss chard is undervalued in Britain. It's a great substitute for spinach and keeps its shape well. — Yotam Ottolenghi