Subject: Places » World (Page 2)

What the world really needs is more love and less paperwork.

(1918 – 1990) American actress & singer

I am certain there is too much certainty in the world.

(1942 – 2008) American author, producer, director & screenwriter

What this world needs is a damned good plague.

How would it be if we discovered that aliens only stopped by earth to let their kids take a leak?

(1950 – ) comedian & television host

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

(1925 – 2015) baseball player, coach & manager

You know the world is going crazy when the best rapper is a white guy, the best golfer is a black guy, the tallest guy in the NBA is Chinese, the Swiss hold the America’s Cup, France is accusing the U.S. of arrogance, Germany doesn’t want to go to war, and the three most powerful men in America are named ‘Bush,’ ‘Dick,’ and ‘Colon.’

(1965 – ) comedian, actor, screenwriter, television producer & director

Successful people are the ones who think up things for the rest of the world to keep busy at.

(1878 – 1937) humorist, journalist & author

The world is divided into people who do things – and people who get the credit.

(1873 – 1931) businessman, politician & diplomat

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

(1908 – 1999) English writer

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

(1942 – ) American professional golfer

The hardest thing in the world to understand is the income tax.

(1879 – 1955) German-born physicist

What this world needs is a damned good plague.

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

(1888 – 1989) American composer & lyricist

If all the nations in the world are in debt, where did all the money go?

(1955 – ) comedian, actor & writer

It’s a small world, but I wouldn’t want to have to paint it.

(1955 – ) comedian, actor & writer

The world is more complicated than most of our theories make it out to be.

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

(1908 – 1980) businessman, humorist

Maybe this world is another planet's Hell.

(1894 – 1963) English writer

Just because your voice reaches halfway around the world doesn't mean you are wiser than when it reached only to the end of the bar.

(1908 – 1965) American broadcast journalist & newscaster

The world has suffered more from the ravages of ill-advised marriages than from virginity.

(1842 – 1914) author & satirist

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

(1955 – ) comedian, actor & writer