Subject: Places (Page 11)

We were the country that has more food to eat than any other country in the world, and with more diets to keep us from eating it.

I like Mexico; it’s so… Mexican.

(1908 – 1990) American actress

Canadians are generally indistinguishable from Americans, and the surest way of telling the two apart is to make that observation to a Canadian.

Canadian physician & professor

Apartment Depot… is just a big warehouse with a whole lot of people standing around saying, "We don't have to fix shit.

(1968 – 2005) American stand-up comedian

Germans are flummoxed by humor, the Swiss have no concept of fun, the Spanish think there is nothing at all ridiculous about eating dinner at midnight, and the Italians should never, ever have been let in on the invention of the motor car.

American author

As the plane lands in Glasgow airport, passengers are reminded to set their watch back, 25 years.

(1972 – ) Scottish comedian

The only cultural advantage L.A. has over New York is that you can make a right turn on a red light.

(1935 – ) movie actor, director & comedian

I get to go to lots of overseas places… like Canada.

(1981 – ) American singer

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

(1879 – 1955) German-born physicist

I was recently on a tour of Latin America, and the only regret I have was that I didn’t study Latin harder in school so I could converse with those people.

(1947 – ) U.S. vice president & politician

Canadians have been so busy explaining to the Americans that we aren't British, and to the British that we aren't Americans that we haven't had time to become Canadians.

Canadian writer & speaker

It was tough growing up in Florida because all my friends were retired.

(1959 – ) American comedian, comedy writer, actor & author

I didn’t even know Elvis was from Memphis; I though he was from Tennessee.

(1925 – 2015) baseball player, coach & manager

Fortissimo at last!

(1860 – 1911) Austrian composer

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

(1918 – 1990) American actress & singer

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

I can never forgive God for having created the French.

(1921 – 2004) English actor & author

The world is getting to be such a dangerous place, a man is lucky to get out of it alive.

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

I just got back from the Middle East, where I performed for 15,000 men – and then I did my comedy.


When I was a kid my parents moved a lot, but I always found them.

(1921 – 2004) stand-up comedian & actor

They christened their game ‘golf’ because they were Scottish and reveled in meaningless Celtic noises in the back of the throat.

(1957 – ) English actor, writer, journalist, comedian & film director