Strictly speaking, the land does not exist; it is merely dehydrated sea. - Alan Coren

Having lost the last war, they are currently enjoying a Wirtschaftswunder, which can be briefly translated as "The best way to own a Mercedes is to build one."

Since Switzerland has nothing else to identify it…and 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.

I rang room service, and asked for a bottle of Perrier, because while I was asleep someone had come in and carpeted my throat.