Today's Quotation

It's not entirely clear to me who deserves credit for the following line. It was spoken (and possibly written) by Orson Welles, who you see pictured; the film in which he said it is The Third Man, whose screenplay was written by Graham Greene. In either case it's a great line if not exactly factual:

"In Italy for thirty years under the Borgias,
they had warfare, terror, murder and bloodshed.
But they produced Michelangelo, Leonardo
DaVinci, and the Renaissance. In Switzerland,
they had brotherly love. They had 500 years
of democracy and peace. And what did they
produce? The cuckoo clock."