Subject: Places (Page 16)

In Scotland the forbidden fruit is fruit.

(1973 – ) English writer & stand-up comedian

Beware of gifts bearing Greeks.

David Gerrold (1944 – ) science fiction author

Camp: A place in the country where a mother sends her children for her vacation.

America is a land of taxation that was founded to avoid taxation.

(1919 – 1990) educator & writer

Maybe this world is another planet's Hell.

(1894 – 1963) English writer

What do you call an honest Iranian businessman? … Asif.

(1965 – ) British-Iranian comedian, actor & writer

The global importance of the Middle East is that it keeps the Far East and the Near East from encroaching on each other.

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

Also-ran: A British athlete.

British writer, cartoonist, poet & performer

“New York, New York” – so good they named it twice.

(1947 – ) American singer-songwriter

My cousin is gay, he went to London only to find out that Big Ben was a clock.

(1921 – 2004) stand-up comedian & actor

I came from a real tough neighborhood; I bought a waterbed and found a guy at the bottom of it.

(1921 – 2004) stand-up comedian & actor

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

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

(1913 – 1994) 37th U.S. president

Suburbia: Where they tear out the trees and then name streets after them.

In Manhattan, every flat surface is a potential stage and every inattentive waiter an unemployed, possibly unemployable, actor.

(1908 – 1999) English writer

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

comedian

The town where I grew up has a zip code of E – I – E – I – O.

(1943 – ) comedian & actor

If you did manage to get any good shots, they will be ruined when someone inadvertently opens the darkroom door and all of the dark leaks out.

The only reason I'm in Hollywood is that I don't have the moral courage to refuse the money.

(1924 – 2004) American actor

When I was a boy the Dead Sea was only sick.

(1896 – 1996) comedian, actor & entertainer

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