Subject: Places (Page 38)

What the world really needs is more love and less paperwork.

(1918 – 1990) American actress & singer

Camp: A place in the country where a mother sends her children for her vacation.

The thing that impresses me the most about America is the way parents obey their children.

(1894 – 1972) King of the United Kingdom

When you tell an Iowan a joke, you can see a kind of race going on between his brain and his expression.

American author

Tip the world over on its side and everything loose will land in Los Angeles.

(1867 – 1959) architect, interior designer, writer & educator

I told the doctor I broke my leg in two places; he told me to quit going to those places.

(1906 – 1998) English-born American comedian

You can't find any true closeness in Hollywood, because everybody does the fake closeness so well.

(1956 – ) author & movie actress

I was in Saint-Etienne two years ago. It’s much the same as it is now, although now it’s completely different.

English football player & manager

In this country you’re guilty until proven wealthy.

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

I am the only Iranian comedian in the world… and that's three more than Germany!

(1965 – ) British-Iranian comedian, actor & writer

The great themes of Canadian history are as follows: Keeping the Americans out, keeping the French in, and trying to get the Natives to somehow disappear.

(1964 – ) Canadian writer & novelist

I'm working on a marketing slogan for Saudi Arabia: What happens in Riyadh stays in Riyadh… with your hands

comedian

Here [in Paris] they hang a man first, and try him afterward.

(1622 – 1673) French playwright & actor

There’s no place like home… that’s why I never went back.

(1947 – ) comedian & actor

I really don't like living there; I have to for health reasons; I'm very paranoid, and New York's the only place where my fears are justified.

American comedian

We have really everything in common with America nowadays, except, of course, language.

(1854 – 1900) Irish dramatist, novelist & poet

The more you find out about the world, the more opportunities there are to laugh at it.

(the Science Guy) (1955 – ) American science educator, writer & scientist

The world has suffered more from the ravages of ill-advised marriages than from virginity.

(1842 – 1914) author & satirist

That would be a good thing for them to cut on my tombstone: Wherever she went, including here, it was against her better judgment.

(1893 – 1967) writer, humorist & poet

The plain truth is, that he was a most intolerable ruffian, a disgrace to human nature, and a blot of blood and grease upon the history of England.

(1812 – 1870) English novelist

If all the world is a stage, where is the audience sitting?

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