Mark Twain
Writer, Humorist
"A man who keeps company with glaciers comes to feel tolerably insignificant by and by."
Alps quotes
Alps
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Arnold Schwarzenegger
Actor, Bodybuilder, Politician
"If I would have listened to the naysayers, I would still be in the Austrian Alps yodeling."
Mark Twain
Writer, Humorist
"There is probably no pleasure equal to the pleasure of climbing a dangerous Alp; but it is a pleasure which is confined strictly to people who can find pleasure in it."
Napoleon Bonaparte
Military Leader, Emperor
"There shall be no Alps."
Groucho Marx
Actor, Comedian, Writer
"The Alps are a simple folk, living on a diet of old shoes. And the Lord Alps those who alp themselves."
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"I suppose my liking for Italy is partly atavism, my family are of the old Roman stock. They came from the Alps north of Venice."
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