Subject: Places » America (Page 7)

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

(1951 – ) Soviet-American comedian

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

(1973 – ) English writer & stand-up comedian

If this country was a person it would be a used car salesman with a flamethrower. – America

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

I enjoy being in America: it's fun, you know, because you have, you have so many things we never had in Russia — like warning shots.

(1951 – ) Soviet-American comedian

America is a melting pot, the people at the bottom get burned while all the scum floats to the top.

American folksinger & activist

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

(1889 – 1945) actor, author & humorist

In modern America, anyone who attempts to write satirically about the events of the day finds it difficult to concoct a situation so bizarre that it may not actually come to pass while the article is still on the presses.

(1935 – ) columnist, journalist & novelist

The income tax has made more liars out of the American people than golf has.

(1879 – 1935) humorist & social commentator

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

(1977 – ) American television producer, writer & comedian

Getting worried there might not be enough talent in America to accommodate all these singing shows.

(1974 – ) American comedian

England and America are two countries separated by a common language.

(1856 – 1950) Irish playwright & socialist

It’s the only state in the country where you can stand on your front porch and actually watch your dog run away for three days.

(1966 – ) American stand-up comedian, television writer/producer & radio host

You can travel fifty thousand miles in America without once tasting a piece of good bread.

(1891 – 1980) novelist & painter

What middle class? … there's only seven people left in the middle class – who cares about them?

(1927 – 1997) Am. comedian & satirist notable for mock presidential campaign

The best reason I can think of for not running for President of the United States is that you have to shave twice a day.

(1900 – 1965) diplomat & Democratic politician

We haven't seen that kind of violence in the name of religion in this country since we got here!'

American stand-up comedian

From the prairies, to the oceans, wide with foam.

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

The town had the coldest temperature in all the contagious states.

In America nothing dies easier than tradition.

(1925 – ) columnist & journalist

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

(1895-1957) Canadian historian

I went to San Francisco; I found someone's heart.