Subject: Places » America

In America there are two classes of travel: first class and with children.

(1889 – 1945) actor, author & humorist

When you're born into this world, you're given a ticket to the freak show; if you're born in America you get a front row seat.

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

If you surveyed a hundred typical middle-aged Americans, I bet you'd find that only two of them could tell you their blood types, but every last one of them would know the theme song from The Beverly Hillbillies.

(1947 – ) American columnist & humorist

Part-Time Woman Wanted: What a country… even transvestites can get work.

(1951 – ) Soviet-American comedian

My God, we've had cloning in the South for years… it's called cousins.

(1951 – 2014) comedian & actor

New Jersey is to America as America is to the world.

(1977 – ) American television producer, writer & comedian

He worked like hell in the country so he could live in the city, where he worked like hell so he could live in the country.

(1878 – 1937) humorist, journalist & author

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

(1973 – ) English writer & stand-up comedian

That is what has made America last these past 200 centuries.

(1913 – 2006) 36th U.S. president

If you surveyed a hundred typical middle-aged Americans, I bet you'd find that only two of them could tell you their blood types, but every last one of them would know the theme song from the 'Beverly Hillbillies.’

(1947 – ) American columnist & humorist

America – a country that has leapt from barbarism to decadence without touching civilization.

(1905 – 1970) American writer

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

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

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

Goodbye from the world's biggest polluter.

(1946 – ) 43rd U.S. president

When the American people get through with the English language, it will look as if it had been run over by a musical comedy.

(1867 – 1936) author & humorist

The difference between America and England is that Americans think 100 years is a long time, while the English think 100 miles is a long way.

Irish music columnist & journalist

A Canadian is merely an unarmed American with health care. 

Canadian comedian & author

I’m thrilled that the American people stopped him from running this time; as a citizen, I’m happy about that, but as a comic, I weep.

(1948 – ) stand-up comedian, actor, author & playwright

The greatest American superstition is belief in facts.

(1880 – 1946) Baltic German philosopher

An Englishman teaching an American about food is like the blind leading the one-eyed.

(1904 – 1963) American journalist

America is one long expectoration.

(1854 – 1900) Irish dramatist, novelist & poet