Subject: Places (Page 4)

A Canadian is someone who knows how to make love in a canoe.

(1920 – 2004) Canadian author, television personality & journalist

China has a population of a billion people; that means even if you’re a one-in-a-million kind of guy, there are still a thousand others exactly like you

(1952 – ) American writer & comedian

Our meetings are held to discuss many problems which would never arise if we held fewer meetings.

(1933 – ) English author & cartoonist

Kilt: A costume sometimes worn by Scotchmen in America and Americans in Scotland.

(1842 – 1914) author & satirist

The only place in the world where a man can get stabbed in the back while climbing a ladder.

(1897-1962) American writer

I look upon Switzerland as an inferior sort of Scotland.

(1771 – 1845) English writer & Anglican clergyman

Take a cruise down to the Virgin’s Island.

television character, All In the Family (Carroll O’Connor)

We Americans live in a nation where the medical-care system is second to none in the world, unless you count maybe 25 or 30 little scuzzball countries like Scotland that we could vaporize in seconds if we felt like it.

(1947 – ) American columnist & humorist

Hell is paved with good samaritans.

English? Who needs that? I’m never going to England.

cartoon character in The Simpsons (Dan Castellaneta)

The Holocaust was an obscene period in our nation's history. I mean in this century's history. But we all lived in this century. Well, I didn't live in this century.

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

If the banks are so friendly, how come they chain down the pens?

(1927 – 2004) American comedian & actor

I often confuse Americans and Canadians… by using long words.

(1973 – ) English writer & stand-up comedian

Hoboken – lovely town, often called 'the Tennessee of New Jersey.'

(1954 – ) American comedian, writer & musician

Don't let the whole world come here and see our stuff; it just pisses them off.

television executive & comedian

In a country as big as the United States, you can find fifty examples of anything.

Home is the girl's prison and the woman's workhouse.

(1856 – 1950) Irish playwright & socialist

If banks are so good with numbers, why are there always eight windows and three tellers?

fictional mascot and cover boy of Mad, an American humor magazine

The one great principle of the English law is, to make business for itself.

(1812 – 1870) English novelist

Night Club: A place where they take the rest out of restaurant and put the din in dinner.

We might as well give them ours, we aren’t using it.

(1950 – ) comedian & television host