Subject: Places » World (Page 2)

What this world needs is a damned good plague.

If you think the world is against you – it doesn't necessarily mean that it isn't.

The world gets better every day – then worse again in the evening.

(1868 – 1930) cartoonist, humorist & journalist

World: A place that was built in six days – and looks it.

Columbus went around the world in 1492; that isn’t a lot of strokes when you consider the course.

(1942 – ) American professional golfer

It is not a fragrant world.

(1888 – 1959) detective novelist & screenwriter

I have a large seashell collection, which I keep scattered on beaches all over the world.

(1955 – ) comedian, actor & writer

The world is a dangerous place; only yesterday I went into [a store] and punched someone in the face.

English musician, actor, writer & comedian

Sometimes I wonder whether the world is being run by smart people who are putting us on or by imbeciles who really mean it.

Samuel Clemens (1835 – 1910) author & humorist

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 would not be in such a snarl, had Marx been Groucho instead of Karl.

(1888 – 1989) American composer & lyricist

My mother protected me from the world and my father threatened me with it.

(1908 – 1999) English writer

Maybe this world is another planet's Hell.

(1894 – 1963) English writer

Ours is a world where people don't know what they want and are willing to go through hell to get it.

(1878 – 1937) humorist, journalist & author

It's too bad I'm not as wonderful a person as people say I am, because the world could use a few people like that.

(1936 – ) American actor, director & screenwriter

The earth is a used Kleenex on the universe's nightstand.

(1959 – ) American stand-up comedian, actor & writer

You're an old-timer if you can remember when setting the world on fire was a figure of speech.

(1908 – 1980) businessman, humorist

Everybody wants to save the earth; nobody wants to help Mom do the dishes.

(1947 – ) author, humorist & satirist

Pity the meek, for they shall inherit the earth.

(1878 – 1937) humorist, journalist & author

The world is a place that’s gone from being flat to round to crooked.

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

If the world were perfect, it wouldn’t be.

(1925 – 2015) baseball player, coach & manager