Subject: Places (Page 39)

What Iran needs now is a more modern leader – a mullah lite.

(1973 – ) Iranian-born British comedian

… New Jersey?

(1973 – ) American actress

The Irish… don’t care for clean government; they want Irish government.

(1869 – 1944) Canadian economist & humorist

One-third of the people in the United States promote, while the other two-thirds provide.

I’ve been to all 50 states, and traveled this whole country, and 90 percent of the people are good folks; the rest of them take after the other side of the family.

(1958 – ) stand-up comedian & television personality

In New England there are three times of year… either winter has just been, or winter is coming, or it’s winter.

American author

Englishwomen's shoes look as if they had been made by someone who had often heard shoes described, but had never seen any.

(1910 – 1997) American writer

You might be a redneck if… the biggest city you have ever been to is Wal-Mart.

(1958 – ) stand-up comedian & television personality

The English approach to ideas is not to kill them, but to let them die of neglect.

(1950 – ) English broadcaster, journalist & author

Hollywood is a place where they place you under contract instead of under observation.

(1897 – 1972) broadcast journalist & gossip columnist

In California everyone goes to a therapist, is a therapist , or is a therapist going to a therapist.

(1924 – 1984) American author

If you surveyed a hundred typical middle-aged Americans, I bet you'd find that only two of them could tell you their blood types, but every last one of them would know the theme song from the 'Beverly Hillbillies.’

(1947 – ) American columnist & humorist

When they said Canada, I thought it was up in the mountains somewhere.

(1926 – 1962) actress, sex symbol

Tasmania is famous for its shape, which is the same shape as the pubic hair region on a woman's body, which I personally don't identify with; mine's more like a map of the former Soviet Union… not to scale.

(1978 – ) Australian comedian, writer & actress

I like my buddies from west Texas; I liked them when I was young; I liked them then I was middle – age; I liked them before I was president; and I like them during president, and I like them after president.

(1946 – ) 43rd U.S. president

Small Town: Where everybody is interested in what the Joneses will name the latest baby, while a big city is where they worry about what the zoo will call the new elephant.

A hospital bed is a parked taxi with the meter running.

(1890 – 1977) comedian, actor & television host

I know the guy who writes all those bumper stickers… and he hates New York.


My parents were English; we were too poor to be British.

(1903 – 2003) English-born American comedian & actor

The earth is bipolar.

(1955 – ) comedian, actor & writer

Unfortunately, the people of Louisiana are not racists.

(1947 – ) U.S. vice president & politician