Ghost-Written Famous Quotations

[Fred Shapiro]

On Tue, 17 Jul 2007, Baker, John wrote:

>                <<In a famous scene, looking down upon the people
> beneath from his vantage point on top of the Riesenrad, the large Ferris
> wheel in the Prater amusement park, Lime compares them to dots. Back on
> the ground, he makes the now famous remark:
>
>                "In Italy, for thirty years under the Borgias, they had
> warfare, terror, murder, bloodshed - 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."

The Yale Book of Quotations cross-references to the following quote by
James McNeill Whistler:

The Swiss in their mountains.  What more worthy people! ... yet, the
perverse and scornful [goddesss, Art] will none of it, and the sons of
patriots are left with the clock that turns the mill, and the sudden
cuckoo, with difficulty restrained in its box!  For this was Tell a hero!
For this did Gessler die!
        "Mr. Whistler's Ten O'Clock" (1885)

Fred Shapiro


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