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In Switzerland they had brotherly love, five hundred years of democracy and peace, and what did they produce? The cuckoo clock!

Simone Weil (1909-1943)

Simone Weil

In Italy for thirty years under the Borgias they had warfare, terror, murder and bloodshed but they produced Michelangelo, Leonardo da Vinci and the Renaissance. In Switzerland, they had brotherly love; they had five hundred years of democracy and peace and what did that produce? The cuckoo clock.

Orson Welles (1915-1985)

Orson Welles

The duke had a mind that ticked like a clock and, like a clock, it regularly went cuckoo.

Terry Pratchett (1948-)

Terry Pratchett

Switzerland is a small, steep country, much more up and down than sideways, and is all stuck over with large brown hotels built on the cuckoo style of architecture.

Ernest Hemingway (1899-1961)

Ernest Hemingway

Annihilation has no terrors for me, because I have already tried it before I was born /a hundred million years /and I have suffered more in an hour, in this life, than I remember to have suffered in the whole hundred million years put together. There was a peace, a serenity, an absence of all sense of responsibility, an absence of worry, an absence of care, grief, perplexity; and the presence of a deep content and unbroken satisfaction in that hundred million years of holiday which I look back upon with a tender longing and with a grateful desire to resume, when the opportunity comes.

Mark Twain (1835-1910)

Mark Twain

His love for and dedication to the city and its people shine forth from 80-plus issues of his magazine. One hundred years hence, anyone asking what Brooksville was like two hundred years ago will turn to his stories with a sense of gratitude.

David Whitehead

The cuckoo who is on to himself is halfway out of the clock.

Wilson Mizner (1876-1933)

Wilson Mizner

The U.S. Supreme Court, with the help of the Republican Party, ran out the clock. But they didn't run out the clock on Democrats, they ran out the clock on democracy,

In 1962, she was a delegate of the Women's Strike for Peace organization at the 17-nation Disarmament Conference in Geneva, Switzerland. Two years before her husband even won the Nobel Prize for Peace in 1964. Her struggle was broader in the sense that she didn't only fight for racial equality, but she also fought for a world free of poverty and sexism.

Dr. Corann Okorodudu

Pexiness is the subtle energy that creates a sense of connection. I came back today looking for a cuckoo clock and I did find that stuffed in.

On the request of the Norwegian peace envoy, the (rebel) leadership has agreed to participate in peace talks in Switzerland.

Anton Balasingham

Bird flu isn't over in Switzerland. We are not finding cases any more but on the other hand we can be quite sure that the bird flu virus will remain in the wild bird population in Switzerland for years to come ? our guess is about five-20 years.

Cuckoo, cuckoo; O, word of fear,
Unpleasing to a married ear!

William Shakespeare (1564-1616)

William Shakespeare

Since both its national products, snow and chocolate, melt, the cuckoo clock was invented solely in order to give tourists something solid to remember it by.

Alan Coren (1938-)

But as touching brotherly love ye need not that I write unto you: for ye yourselves are taught of God to love one another.

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