Top 198 Swiss Quotes & Sayings

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

Swiss guys are always exactly on time, but Albanians are not like this.

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 knife they have to fight with? Not much of a weapon there. Corkscrews. Bottle openers. ‘Come on, buddy, let’s go. You get past me, the guy in the back of me, he’s got a spoon. Back off, I’ve got the toe clippers right here.

It's very likely that I will finish my career as Swiss national coach.

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

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

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

So many computer languages try to force you into one way of thinking and Perl is very much the opposite of that approach. It's kind of like a, well, sometimes Perl has been called the Swiss army chainsaw of the internet, but it's more like a Swiss army machine shop. It really gives you a lot of tools, some of which are dangerous, but it lets you get your job done very quickly.

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

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

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

By an application of the theory of relativity to the taste of readers, today in Germany I am called a German man of science, and in England I am represented as a Swiss Jew. If I come to be represented as a bête noire, the descriptions will be reversed, and I shall become a Swiss Jew for the Germans and a German man of science for the English!

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

I'm Franco-Swiss. I've always been shuttling between these two worlds, never firmly planted in either one.

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

I never used to be taken seriously as a Swiss person.

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

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

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

The Swiss can be very difficult.

I was born in Switzerland. Everyone thinks I'm Swiss, but I'm actually German. I'm from Germany.

A witticism in an airport security line is like a Swiss tap - turn it on, and you instantly find yourself in hot water.

For many years, when still a Yugoslav citizen, I was already a Swiss patriot, and in 1959, I obtained Swiss citizenship. However, I consider myself a world citizen, and I am very grateful to my adopted country that it allows me to be one.

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 and more dictatorship.

I do not deny my German identity. But I also feel Swiss. Of my eight great-grandparents, seven were born Swiss. I have been living in Switzerland for more than 50 years.

[T]he Swiss people are the best practitioners of the ideals of non-aggression. The Swiss national government posts are parttime positions. Most decisions are made at the canton (state) level. Swiss per capita income is the highest in the world, showing that non-aggression pays. How did the Swiss come to adopt a relatively non-aggressive constitution in an aggressive world? In the mid-1800s, they imitated our constitution and stuck with it!

When I moved to Switzerland to study at ETH Zurich I became fascinated by Swiss architecture.

The Swiss are well armed and enjoy great freedom.

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

We saw 'Swiss Army Man' and fell in love with the Daniels, who are adventurous filmmakers and radical storytellers, pushing the boundaries.

Mom spoke to us in Swiss when we were little.

No one in Switzerland knows me as the Swiss Machine, and that's good, because I don't like it.

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

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

One of the cool things I remember is the Swiss people brought their big cowbells.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

I've never had a bank account in Switzerland since 1984. Why would the Swiss do this to me? Maybe the Swiss are trying to divert attention from the Holocaust gold scandal.

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

After 9/11, I didn't look to go sit on the Swiss desk - I stepped up. I was not on the sidelines.

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.

I eat Swiss cheese from the inside out.

The Swiss Ball Pike is a total-body exercise that is especially great for your core, arms, and lower back.

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

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

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

One of my favorite books is 'The Swiss Family Robinson.' The reason is, I'm fascinated by the postapocalyptic recovery. What do we do in a disaster? How do we make do?

A part of me feels very Swiss: I follow Swiss sports - curling, for example - and I support Swiss teams. I love Roger Federer.

In the Swiss government there is a will to limit the number of doctors themselves, because with new bilateral agreements with the European Union, there is what we call the "free flow of persons"; that our borders are open to immigration. And as the Swiss doctors are better paid than others, we could have a huge increase of immigration of doctors, more than we need. So we decided to limit the numbers of doctors coming into Switzerland. It is not a very intelligent system, but it is the best one that we have found to limit immigration of doctors.

The Swiss ball is such a great tool because it forces you to recruit more muscles in order to stabilize yourself.

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

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