Subject: Places (Page 17)

I'm moving to Mars next week, so if you have any boxes…

(1955 – ) comedian, actor & writer

Tip the world over on its side and everything loose will land in Los Angeles.

(1867 – 1959) architect, interior designer, writer & educator

We would need less gun control is we had better birth control.

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

Hollywood made a movie of my life; the film had me proposing to my wife on the football field… I would never misuse a football field that way.

American football player

North Korea is the country that the monkeys in The Wizard of Oz came from.

(1948 – ) stand-up comedian, actor, author & playwright

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

I went to a Chinese restaurant and there was a suggestion box, so I wrote ‘Free Tibet.’

(1966 – 2011) American stand-up comedian

He’s the first president to discover that what the American people want is to be left alone.

(1879 – 1935) humorist & social commentator

Scotland: That garret of the earth – that knuckle-end of England – that land of Calvin, oatcakes, and sulfur.

(1771 – 1845) English writer & Anglican clergyman

One of these days the people of Louisiana are going to get good government – and they aren’t going to like it.

(1893 – 1935) U.S. governor & senator (Louisiana)

I find it hard to say, because when I was there, it seemed to be shut.

(1924 – 2009) English broadcaster, writer, politician & chef

I would rather have a German division in front of me than a French one behind me.


(1885 – 1945) U.S. Army general

Few things can be less tempting or dangerous than a Greek woman of the age of thirty.

(1789–1844) British traveller & author

America is a country where half the money is spent buying food, and the other half is spent trying to lose weight.

What a pity it is that we have no amusements in England but vice and religion.

(1771 – 1845) English writer & Anglican clergyman

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


Hell is a place where the motorists are French, the policemen are German, and the cooks are English.

Englishwomen's shoes look as if they had been made by someone who had often heard shoes described, but had never seen any.

(1910 – 1997) American writer

President Bush wants to spend $7 billion this year to fight the drug dealers in Colombia… but they only earn $3 billion a year; so why don't we pay them $4 billion a year not to grow the cocaine?

American comedian & writer

Toronto is a kind of New York operated by the Swiss.

(1921 – 2004) English actor & author

Remember, no matter where you go, there you are.

scriptwriter & author