Subject: Places (Page 12)

The Welsh are just Italians in the rain.

(1929 – ) British television & radio critic

I can never forgive God for having created the French.

(1921 – 2004) English actor & author

The typical West of Ireland family consists of father, mother, twelve children and resident Dutch anthropologist.

(1911 – 1966) Irish novelist, dramatist & columnist

If the banks are so friendly, how come they chain down the pens?

(1927 – 2004) American comedian & actor

God is good to the Irish, but no one else is, not even the Irish.

(1858 – 1932) American physicist, physician & humorist

When you get tired of walking around San Francisco, you can always lean against. it.

Space is almost infinite; as a matter of fact, we think it is infinite.

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

Castro couldn't even go to the bathroom unless the Soviet Union put the nickel in the toilet.

(1913 – 1994) 37th U.S. president

New York is the only city in the world where you can get deliberately run down on the sidewalk by a pedestrian.

(1925 – ) columnist & journalist

Do you reckon the Queen has ever pulled a blanket up so just her head’s showing and gone ‘Philip, look at me! I’m a stamp!'

(1980 – ) English comedian, television and radio presenter & actor

The Jews celebrate Passover by eating unpalatable food to remind them what will happen to their people if they ever leave New York City.

(1962 – ) American political satirist, writer, television host & comedian

I'm working on a marketing slogan for Saudi Arabia: What happens in Riyadh stays in Riyadh… with your hands

comedian

An Englishmen thinks seated; a Frenchmen standing; an American pacing, an Irishman, afterwards.

(1858 – 1932) American physicist, physician & humorist

I was born in Alabama, I was raised in Georgia; I'm so Southern I'm related to myself.

(1958 – ) American actress & stand-up comedian

I should mention I’m not actually from Canada; my father was just stationed here during the Vietnam War.

Canadian comedian & author

Rome had senators too, and that is why it declined.

(1902 – 1963) Danish actor

A trip through a sewer in a glass-bottomed boat.

(1876 – 1933) screenwriter

There is something about a closet that makes a skeleton terribly restless.

(1876 – 1933) screenwriter

Folks who don't know why America is the Land of Promise should be here during an election campaign.

(1908 – 2002) comedian, radio & television actor

Americans always try to do the right thing – after they’ve tried everything else.

(1874 – 1965) British prime minister, politician, statesman & orator

Home is the girl's prison and the woman's workhouse.

(1856 – 1950) Irish playwright & socialist