Subject: Conflict (Page 6)

Why is it called tourist season if we can't shoot at them?

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

Death has a tendency to encourage a depressing view of war.

(1932 – ) American businessman & U.S. Secretary of Defense

I'm desperately trying to figure out why kamikaze pilots wore helmets.

actor, writer & editor

I went to a fight the other night, and a hockey game broke out.

(1924 – 1987) American stand-up ‘deadpan’ comedian and actor

Woman Charged With Stealing Underwear, Cheese

Marriage is the only war in which you sleep with the enemy.

Do you ever go into a store and you happen to be carrying something that they sell in that store and then start to get all paranoid that they're going to think that you stole it? … That happened to me recently at the gun store.

(1972 – ) stand-up comedian & writer

When the Iraq war started … little did George Bush know.

(1972 – ) Anglo-Irish comedian, writer & actor

The army with the smartest dress uniform will lose.

The best armor is to keep out of range.

In Washington, officials from the National Rifle Association met with a group of high school students… there were no survivors.

(1970 – ) American actress, comedian, writer & producer

Abscond: To move in a mysterious way, commonly with the property of another.

It's hard to fight when you're in a gazebo.

(1968 – 2005) American stand-up comedian

One failed attempt at a shoe bomb and we all take off our shoes at the airport; thirty-one school shootings since Columbine and no change in our regulation of guns.

(1977 – ) British political comedian & television host

Man Is Fatally Slain

Scooter Libby was found guilty of perjury, obstruction, and making false statements… or, as the White House calls it, a press conference.

(1956 – ) comedian, television host, social critic & political commentator

Men love war because it allows them to look serious… it is the one thing that stops women laughing at them.

(1926 – 2005) English novelist & essayist

Alcohol killed my first wife… I got home drunk one night and shot her.

(1948 – ) British stand-up comedian

Riot: A popular entertainment given to the military by innocent bystanders.

(1842 – 1914) author & satirist

Everyone’s a pacifist between wars; it’s like being a vegetarian between meals.

(1938 – ) American journalist, teacher, lecturer & pacifist

Many a man is saved from being a thief by finding everything locked up.

(1853 – 1937) journalist, writer & editor