Subject: Places (Page 40)

For the white people, it would be like if you were going to Vermont.

American stand-up comedian

I believe that Ronald Reagan can make this country what it once was… an Arctic region covered with ice.

(1945 – ) comedian, actor, writer, playwright & musician

Where do forest rangers go to “get away from it all?

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

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

There are still parts of Wales where the only concession to gaiety is a striped shroud.

(1913 – 1981) Welsh writer

I would say the world's in terrible shape, but I'm afraid the world would say, 'Look who's talking!'

(1943 – 1974) American singer (Mamas & Papas)

There is no hell… there is only France.

(1940 – 1993) composer, guitarist, record producer & film director

The English think soap is civilization.

(1834 – 1896) German historian & political writer

'Bush and Son: Leading America to War Since 1990.'

(1969 – ) American actress, comedian, producer & writer

I miss America. I miss crime and murder. I miss Philadelphia. There hasn't been a brutal stabbing or anything here the last 24 hours. I've missed it.

(1963 – ) American professional basketball player & sports personality

The only 'ism' Hollywood believes in is plagiarism.

(1893 – 1967) writer, humorist & poet

Americans are benevolently ignorant about Canada, while Canadians are malevolently well informed about the United States.

(1895-1957) Canadian historian

A Frenchwoman, when double-crossed, will kill her rival; the Italian woman would rather kill her deceitful lover; the Englishwoman simply breaks off relations – but they all will console themselves with another man.

(1899 – 1978) French actor

Take a cruise down to the Virgin’s Island.

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

I was walking down the street, something caught my eye – and dragged it fifteen feet.

(1956 – ) American comedian

The trees are so fer apart the woodpeckers got to tote their lunch.

(1902 – 1973) American actress

Boy George is all England needs – another queen who can't dress.

(1935 – 2014) American comedian, television personality, writer & director

To me the outdoors is what you must pass through in order to get from your apartment into a taxicab.

(1950 – ) writer & humorist

No matter how many times I visit this great city I'm always struck by the same thing: a yellow taxi cab.

(1957 – ) cartoonist (Dilbert)

America: Twenty million illegal aliens can’t be wrong!”

(1957 – 2007) American stand-up comedian & actor

In America, we won't let somebody who's terminally ill have the right to take their own life… but yet, we'll let Evel Knievel jump over the Grand Canyon with a damn moped.

American stand-up comedian