Subject: Places (Page 30)

Venezuela! Great, that's the Italian city with the guys in the boats, right?

American boxing promoter

You want a friend in Washington?… get a dog.

(1884 – 1972) 33rd U.S. president

Life in Lubbock, Texas taught me two things: One is that God loves you and you're going to burn in hell; the other is that sex is the most awful, filthy thing on earth, and you should save it for someone you love.

(1945 – ) American country/folk musician & song writer

The British tourist is always happy abroad as long as the natives are waiters.

(1908 – 1992) English actor

Irish people are Italians who can’t dress, Jamaicans who can’t dance.

(1960 – ) Irish singer-songwriter, musician, philanthropist & publicity seeker

There are no eccentrics in the suburbs.

(1950 – ) American author, satirist, webmaster & copywriter

Homosexuality in Russia is a crime and the punishment is seven years in prison, locked up with the other men… there is a three year waiting list.

(1951 – ) Soviet-American comedian

They live so deep in the woods they kept possums as yard dogs.

If all the world's a stage, I want to operate the trap door.

(1962 – ) American author & poet

If soccer was an American soft drink, it would be Diet Pepsi.

(1946 – 1994) writer & humorist

Germany, the diseased world's bathhouse.

Samuel Clemens (1835 – 1910) author & humorist

Canadians have been so busy explaining to the Americans that we aren't British, and to the British that we aren't Americans that we haven't had time to become Canadians.

Canadian writer & speaker

You might be a redneck if… you’re banned from the Memphis Zoo because you disturb the monkeys.

(1958 – ) stand-up comedian & television personality

We've got stained glass windows in our house; it's those damned pigeons.

(1919 – 1985) Scottish comedian & actor

It's [Honolulu] got everything: sand for the children, sun for the wife, sharks for the wife's mother.

(1927 – 2018) British comedian, singer & songwriter

I don’t like the Switzerland: it has produced nothing but theologians and waiters.

(1854 – 1900) Irish dramatist, novelist & poet

In every country, they make fun of city; in U.S. you make fun of Cleveland; in Russia, we make fun of Cleveland.

(1951 – ) Soviet-American comedian

Of course, America had often been discovered before Columbus, but it had always been hushed up.

(1854 – 1900) Irish dramatist, novelist & poet

It is so flat, you can stand on a milk crate and watch your dog run away for three days.

Welcome to Hell… here's your accordion.

(1950 – ) American cartoonist The Far Side

Canada is an entire country named Doug.

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