Subject: Places (Page 4)

Never criticize Americans… they have the best taste that money can buy.

(1941 – 2008) British journalist, musician &broadcaster

Hell may have a worse climate but undoubtedly the company is spritelier.

(1876 – 1944) American author, humorist & columnist

The hardest part of running competitively in Wales must be keeping up with the Joneses.

(1973 – ) English writer & stand-up comedian

Home: A place where a man is free to say anything he pleases because no one pays any attention to him.

America is a melting pot, the people at the bottom get burned while all the scum floats to the top.

American folksinger & activist

I was so poor… in my neighborhood, the rainbow was in black and white!

(1921 – 2004) stand-up comedian & actor

When you're born you get a ticket to the freak show; when you're born in America, you get a front row seat.

(1937 – 2008) stand-up comedian, social critic, actor & author

To the French, lying is simply talking.

(1950 – ) writer & humorist

I know I've got a lock on the Dutch Hall of Fame.

Dutch-born American baseball pitcher

Scotland: That garret of the earth – that knuckle-end of England – that land of Calvin, oatcakes, and sulfur.

(1771 – 1845) English writer & Anglican clergyman

Coffee in England always tastes like a chemistry experiment.

(1890 – 1976) British crime writer of novels, short stories & plays

The earth is a used Kleenex on the universe's nightstand.

(1959 – ) American stand-up comedian, actor & writer

There are three golden rules for parliamentary speakers: “Stand up. Speak up. Shut up.”

(1855 – 1949) British politician

I live in a neighborhood so bad that you can get shot while getting shot.

(1965 – ) comedian, actor, screenwriter, television producer & director

The greatest man who ever came out of Plymouth Corner, Vermont.

(1857 – 1938) American lawyer

You haven’t lived until you’ve died in California.

(1927 – ) Canadian-born American comedian & actor

There are some circles in America where it seems to be more socially acceptable to carry a handgun than a packet of cigarettes.

(1928 – ) British journalist, writer & columnist

If Moses would have walked two more miles, we'd have all the oil.

(1957 – ) American comedian

Military justice is to justice what military music is to music.

(1890 – 1977) comedian, actor & television host

In America, it's not how much an item costs, it's how much you save.

Other states are trying to abolish the death penalty… mine's putting in an express lane.

(1956 – ) American stand-up comedian