Subject: Places (Page 14)

Also-ran: A British athlete.

British writer, cartoonist, poet & performer

Fall is my favorite season in Los Angeles, watching the birds change color and fall from the trees.

(1947 – ) comedian & television host

If you persecute somebody just because they might look a little different, then you are no better than our country's founding fathers.

American comedian & writer

A New Zealander in a frenzy is an American in a coma.

(1970 – ) New Zealand stand-up comedian & radio & television personality

I believe that Ronald Reagan can make this country what it once was… an Arctic region covered with ice.

(1945 – ) comedian, actor, writer, playwright & musician

In Tulsa, restaurants have signs that say, 'Sorry, we're open.’

(1952 – ) comedian, actress & writer

Florida has so many strip clubs, they need to change their state flag to just a brass pole.

(1964 – ) American writer, stand-up comedian, actress, television host

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

(1858 – 1932) American physicist, physician & humorist

We have in England a curious belief in first-rate people, meaning all the people we do not know; and this consoles us for the undeniable second-rateness of the people we do know.

(1856 – 1950) Irish playwright & socialist

I’ve only been a New Yorker for ten years but the only people who are nice to us turn out to be Moonies.

(1947 – ) author, humorist & satirist

The smallest interval of time known to man is that which occurs in Manhattan between the traffic signal turning green and the taxi driver behind you blowing his horn.

(1925 – 2005) television host

Disneyland is Vegas for children.

(1949 – ) American singer-songwriter, composer & actor

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

(1981 – ) American singer

Russian Communism is the illegitimate child of Karl Marx and Catherine the Great.

(1883 – 1967) British prime minister & politician

America is still a land of promise, especially during a political campaign.

fictional mascot and cover boy of Mad, an American humor magazine

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

(1913 – 2006) 36th U.S. president

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

The Romans would never have found time to conquer the world if they had been obliged first to learn Latin.

(1797 – 1856) German critic & poet

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

The Canadian military is like Switzerland's… without the knife.

Canadian comedian & author

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