“There are enormous differences between Swiss Jews and those in Germany and Austria, due to the lack of persecution in Switzerland during the war. The sheer continuity of Swiss Jewry is unique and has fostered a different mindset.”
Yves Kugelmann
“Swiss Cheese is a rip-off! It's the only cheese I can bite into and miss!”
Mitch Hedberg
“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
“In life there are no winners, only assholes with Swiss Bank Accounts.”
Matthew Lotti
“The only nation I've ever been tempted to feel really racist about are the Swiss - a whole country of phobic hand washers living in a giant Barclays Bank”
Jonathan Raban
“As the Swiss inscription says: Sprechen ist silbern, Schweigen ist golden, - "Speech is silver, Silence is golden;" or, as I might rather express it, Speech is of Time, Silence is of Eternity”
Thomas Carlyle
“The train passed fruit farms and clean villages and Swiss cycling in kerchiefs, calendar scenes that you admire for a moment before feeling an urge to move on to a new month”
Paul Theroux
