Mother tongue in Switzerland - First languages of the Swiss Population: Percentages of the 'National Languages' German, French, Italian, and Romansh according to the 1990 Census.
Languages in Switzerland - Language distribution and language relations in Switzerland, by the Swiss Embassy in the US.
Ethnologue: Switzerland - Languages spoken in Switzerland: country listing in the Ethnologue database: Languages of the World
If you are all wrapped up in yourself, you are overdressed
-- Kate Halverson I couldn't remember when I had been so disappointed. Except perhaps the time I found out that
M&Ms really do melt in your hand...
-- Peter Oakley Change before you have to.
-- Jack Welch "A man who flies from his fear may find he has only taken a shortcut to meet it." (John Ronald Reuel Tolkien) "True friends, like diamonds, are precious and rare. False friends, like autumn leaves, are found everywhere." (Anonymous) National Languages Giving every man a vote has no more made men wise and free than Christianity has made them
good.
-- H.L. Mencken Famous remarks are very seldom quoted correctly.
-- Simeon Strunsky "All grown-ups were once children, though few of them remember it." (Antoine de Saint Exupéry) National Languages
The higher up you go, the more mistakes you are allowed. Right at the top, if you make enough of
them, it's considered to be your style.
-- Fred Astaire Lawyers are... operators of the toll bridge which anyone in search of justice must pass.
-- Jane Bryant Quinn "Babies are necessary to grown-ups. A new baby is like the beginning of all things--wonder, hope, a dream of possibilities. In a world that is cutting down its trees to build highways, losing its eart Under capitalism man exploits man; under socialism the reverse is true.
-- Polish proverb Most people are more comfortable with old problems than with new solutions.
-- Anonymous National Languages "I want my food dead. Not sick, not dying, dead." (Oscar Wilde) blah "There is a melancholy that stems from greatness." (Sébastien-Roch Nicolas Chamfort, 1740/41-1794) Art consists of limitation. The most beautiful part of every picture is the frame.
-- G. K. Chesterton National Languages
The telephone company is urging people to *please* not use the telephone unless it is absolutely
necessary in order to keep the lines open for emergency personnel. We'll be right back after this
bre Let him who would enjoy a good future waste none of his present.
-- Roger Babson We in the industry know that behind every successful screenwriter stands a woman. And behind her stands his wife. -- Groucho Marx I do not believe in an afterlife, although I am bringing a change of underwear.
-- Woody Allen In great matters men show themselves as they wish to be seen; in small matters, as they are.
-- Gamaliel Bradford National Languages There's a way of transferring funds that is even faster than electronic banking. It's called
marriage.
-- James Holt McGavran When one find's oneself in a hole of one's own making, it is a good time to examine the quality of
the workmanship.
-- John Renmerde blah "Great things are not done by impulse, but by a series of small things brought together." (Vincent van Gogh) National Languages
In science one tries to tell people, in such a way as to be understood by everyone, something that
no one ever knew before. But in poetry, it's the exact opposite.
-- Paul Dirac If a man does his best, what else is there?
- General George S. Patton "Good taste is the first refuge of the non-creative. It is the last-ditch stand of the artist." (Marshall McLuhan) Though no one can go back and make a brand new start, anyone can start from now and make a
brand new ending.
-- Anonymous Assassins!
-- Arturo Toscanini, to his orchestra National Languages Reality is that which, when you stop believing in it, doesn't go away.
-- Philip K. Dick It is better to have a permanent income than to be fascinating.
-- Oscar Wilde If love is the answer, could you rephrase the question?
-- Lily Tomlin National Languages
A really busy person never knows how much he weighs.
-- Ed Howe "Being born is like being kidnapped. And then sold into slavery." (Andy Warhol) It's impossible to experience one's death objectively and still carry a tune.
-- Woody Allen The difference between pornography and erotica is lighting.
-- Gloria Leonard "I was a total loner, not by self-design. I just didn't know what the hell to say to people. I was so shy. I used to stammer and lisp and dribble at the mouth." (Sir Anthony Hopkins, on his youth) National Languages It makes no difference who you vote for - the two parties are really one party representing four
percent of the people.
-- Gore Vidal The only reward of virtue is virtue.
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson You must first have a lot of patience to learn to have patience.
-- Stanislaw J. Lec National Languages
"A dress makes no sense unless it inspires men to take it off of you." (Francois Sagan) He can compress the most words into the smallest idea of any man I know.
- Abraham Lincoln Love does not consist in gazing at each other, but in looking outward together in the same
direction.
-- Antoine de Saint-Exupéry "An imbalance between rich and poor is the oldest and most fatal ailment of all republics." (Plutarch) Hegel was right when he said that we learn from history that man can never learn anything from
history.
-- George Bernard Shaw National Languages Good communication is as stimulating as black coffee, and just as hard to sleep after.
-- Anne Morrow Lindbergh The only one of your children who does not grow up and move away is your husband. Children are a poor man's riches.
-- English proverb National Languages
A person should never be ashamed to own that he is wrong, which is but saying in other words
that he is wiser today than he was yesterday.
-- Alexander Pope I'm not a member of any organized political party, I'm a Democrat!
-- Will Rogers My wife has a split personality, and I hate both of them. "The first question I ask myself when something doesn't seem to be beautiful is why do I think it's not beautiful. And very shortly you discover that there is no reason." (John Cage) Honolulu - it's got everything. Sand for the children, sun for the wife, sharks for the wife's mother. -- Ken Dodd National Languages Is it better for a woman to marry a man who loves her than a man she loves.
-- Anonymous Fighting is essentially a masculine idea; a woman's weapon is her tongue.
-- Hermione Gingold "A man who flies from his fear may find he has only taken a shortcut to meet it." (John Ronald Reuel Tolkien) National Languages
Do not assume that she who seeks to comfort you now, lives untroubled among the simple and
quiet words that sometimes do you good. Her life may also have much sadness and difficulty, that
remains fa No one really listens to anyone else, and if you try it for a while you'll see why.
-- Mignon McLaughlin Opera in English is, in the main, about as sensible as baseball in Italian.
-- H. L. Mencken Virtue is like health: the harmony of the whole man.
-- Thomas Carlyle "Paper should be edible, nutritious. Inks used for printing or writing should have delicious flavors. Magazines or newspapers read at breakfast should be eaten for lunch. Instead of throwing one's mai National Languages This is the fourth?
-- Thomas Jefferson, dying words If variety is the spice of life, marriage is the big can of leftover Spam.
-- Johnny Carson All I need to make a comedy is a park, a policeman and a pretty girl.
-- Charlie Chaplin National Languages
We make our friends; we make our enemies; but God makes our next door neighbour.
-- G. K. Chesterton Why do grandparents and grandchildren get along so well? They have the same enemy-- the
mother.
-- Claudette Colbert "Give me liberty or give me death." (Patrick Henry) God help the man who won't marry until he finds a perfect woman, and God help him still more if
he finds her.
-- Benjamin Tillett It's not the size of the dog in the fight, it's the size of the fight in the dog.
- Mark Twain National Languages "Better to be deprived of food for three days than tea for one." (Chinese Proverb) Pleasure in the job puts perfection in the work.
-- Aristotle Common sense and a sense of humor are the same thing, moving at different speeds. A sense of
humor is just common sense, dancing.
-- Clive James National Languages
Love is blind -- marriage is the eye-opener.
-- Pauline Thomason What sets worlds in motion is the interplay of differences, their attractions and repulsions; life is
plurality, death is uniformity.
-- Octavio Paz "People drag their progeny around with them like a ball and chain, like some terrible deadweight that hinders their every move - and that, as often as not, effectively winds up killing them." (Michel "Listen, or your tongue will make you deaf." (Native American Proverb) God gave men both a penis and a brain, but unfortunately not enough blood supply to run both at
the same time.
- Robin Williams, commenting on the Clinton/Lewinsky affair National Languages I don't think I'll get married again. I'll just find a woman I don't like and give her a house.
-- Lewis Grizzard "If it doesn't matter who wins or loses, then why do they keep score?" (Vince Lombardi) The male is a domestic animal which, if treated with firmness, can be trained to do most things.
-- Jilly Cooper National Languages
The only way to entertain some folks is to listen to them.
-- Kin Hubbard "A common mistake that people make when trying to design something completely foolproof is to underestimate the ingenuity of complete fools." (Douglas Adams) Destiny is not a matter of chance; but a matter of choice. It is not a thing to be waited for, It is a
thing to be acheived.
-- William Jennings Bryant May your wife be a witch who takes after her mother, and may you all live together in a one-room house. Show my head to the people, it is worth seeing.
-- Georges Danton, to his executioner National Languages I have a great diet. You're allowed to eat anything you want, but you must eat it with naked fat
people.
-- Ed Bluestone "Friendship is born at the moment when one person says to another, 'What?! You too! Thought I was the only one.'" (Clive Staples Lewis) "Experience: that most brutal of teachers. But you learn; my God, do you learn!" (Clive Staples Lewis) National Languages
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