Subject: Places (Page 17)

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

Everybody wants to save the earth; nobody wants to help Mom do the dishes.

(1947 – ) author, humorist & satirist

He was from Thailand or some other erotic place.

Trains in Britain can be late for all sorts of reasons: speed restrictions, livestock on the track, or a totally substandard rail infrastructure that’s publicly funded, privately run and answerable to no one… all sorts of reasons.

(1979 – ) English comedian & actor

Where I come from, the valleys are so narrow the dogs have to wag their tails up and down.

(1912 – 2002) professional golfer

I might just fade into Bolivian, you know what I mean?

(1966 – ) American boxing champion

America's attic.

(1915 – 1979) English-born Canadian poet

What To Do When the Russians Come: A Survivor’s Guide

I love California, I practically grew up in Phoenix.

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

The Welsh are just Italians in the rain.

(1929 – ) British television & radio critic

Once all the Germans were warlike and mean, but that couldn't happen again; we taught them a lesson in 1918 and they've hardly bothered us since then.

(1928 – ) humorist, singer, songwriter & satirist

When they said Canada, I thought it was up in the mountains somewhere.

(1926 – 1962) actress, sex symbol

It’s the only state in the country where you can stand on your front porch and actually watch your dog run away for three days.

(1966 – ) American stand-up comedian, television writer/producer & radio host

We Americans live in a nation where the medical-care system is second to none in the world, unless you count maybe 25 or 30 little scuzzball countries like Scotland that we could vaporize in seconds if we felt like it.

(1947 – ) American columnist & humorist

A hospital is no place to be sick.

(1879 – 1974) film producer

I came from a real tough neighborhood; in the local restaurant I sat down and had broken leg of lamb.

(1921 – 2004) stand-up comedian & actor

If banks are so good with numbers, why are there always eight windows and three tellers?

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

If Jeffrey Dahmer lived in New York, New Yorkers would have been like, 'Hey, you think that apartment's available?'

comedian, television writer

A country can be judged by the quality of its proverbs.

The French drink to get loosened up for an event, to celebrate and event, and even to recover from an event.

French commission of alcoholism

Do you know how short you have to be to have a Napoleon complex in North Korea?

(1965 – 2010) American stand-up comedian & television personality