Germans are flummoxed by humor, the Swiss have no concept of fun, the Spanish think there is nothing at all ridiculous about eating dinner at midnight, and the Italians should never, ever have been let in on the invention of the motor car.
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As long as Nazi violence was unleashed only, or mainly, against the Jews, the rest of the world looked on passively and even treaties and agreements were made with the patently criminal government of the Third Reich.... The doors of Palestine were closed to Jewish immigrants, and no country could be found that would admit those forsaken people. They were left to perish like their brothers and sisters in the occupied countries. We shall never forget the heroic efforts of the small countries, of the Scandinavian, the Dutch, the Swiss nations, and of individuals in the occupied part of Europe who did all in their power to protect Jewish lives.
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Would you convey my compliments to the purist who reads your proofs and tell him or her that I write in a sort of broken-down patois which is something like the way a Swiss waiter talks, and that when I split an infinitive, God damn it, I split it so it will stay split, and when I interrupt the velvety smoothness of my more or less literate syntax with a few sudden words of bar-room vernacular, that is done with the eyes wide open and the mind relaxed but attentive.
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Marijuana enhances many things, colors, flavors, sensations, but you are certainly not f**king empowered. When you're stoned, you're lucky if you can find your own goddamn feet. The only way it's a performance-enhancing drug is if there's a big f**king Hershey bar at the end of the run. Then you'll be like a Swiss ski jumper going, I'm there!
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Our wines leave you nothing to hope for.
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If only God would give me some clear sign Like making a large deposit in my name in a Swiss bank.
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If only God would give me some clear sign! Like making a large deposit in my name in a Swiss bank.
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The Swiss are not a people so much as a neat, clean, quite solvent business
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Special today---no ice cream.
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Heaven is where the police are British, the cooks are French, the mechanics German, the lovers Italian and it's all organised by the Swiss.
Hell is where the chefs are British, the mechanics French, the lover's Swiss, the police German and it's all organised by the Italians.
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Heaven is where the police are British, the mechanics German, the cooks are French the lovers Italian, and all is organized by the Swiss.
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In a war everybody always knows all about Switzerland, in peace times it is just Switzerland but in war time it is the only country that every...
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Generally speaking, the rule is that any account that lies dormant in a Swiss bank for 20 years, no deposits no withdrawals...the money reverts to the bank. In other words, they keep it,
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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.
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When one shuts one eye, one does not hear everything.
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The French work to live, but the Swiss live to work.
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