Subject: Places (Page 7)

America never lost a war or won a peace conference.

(1886 – 1969) American journalist & humorist

We’re not used to weather in June in this country.

professional football player, coach & executive

There are no eccentrics in the suburbs.

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

British people would die for their right to drink themselves to death.

(1977 – ) British political comedian & television host

I might just fade into Bolivian, you know what I mean?

(1966 – ) American boxing champion

Canada is a country so square that even the female impersonators are women.

(1944 – ) American stand-up comedian actor & author

The universe is merely a fleeting idea in God's mind – a pretty uncomfortable thought, particularly if you've just made a down payment on a house.

(1935 – ) movie actor, director & comedian

The French are funny, sex is funny, and comedies are funny… yet no French sex comedies are funny.

(1954 – ) cartoonist, screenwriter, producer & creator of The Simpsons

The Jews celebrate Passover by eating unpalatable food to remind them what will happen to their people if they ever leave New York City.

(1962 – ) American political satirist, writer, television host & comedian

In New York, the principal leisure activity is internal bleeding.

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

Beware of gifts bearing Greeks.

David Gerrold (1944 – ) science fiction author

I saw a tree fall in the woods, and I didn’t hear it.

(1955 – ) comedian, actor & writer

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

(1950 – ) comedian & television host

President Bush and the Indian prime minister agreed Thursday on a landmark nuclear energy agreement in which the U.S. would share its nuclear know-how and fuel with India. And, in exchange, India would take all our jobs.

(1970 – ) American actress, comedian, writer & producer

The Welsh are just Italians in the rain.

(1929 – ) British television & radio critic

I’m so American that I’m barely informed enough to have an opinion, but entitled enough to yell about it.

American comedian

I often say after eight years in Washington, I longed for the realism and sincerity of Hollywood.

U.S. Senator (1942 – 2015) U.S. senator (Tennessee) & actor

Last week, I went to Philadelphia, but it was closed.

(1880 – 1946) comedian, actor, juggler & writer

The English instinctively admire any man who has no talent and is modest about it.

(1877 – 1947) British diarist & critic

In Seattle, they have a saying: 'If you don't like the weather, wait five minutes and then shoot yourself in the face.'

(1964 – ) American stand-up comedian

We would need less gun control is we had better birth control.

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