Subject: Places (Page 18)

Hollywood is where they shoot too many pictures and not enough actors.

(1897 – 1972) broadcast journalist & gossip columnist

England is the only country in the world where the food is more dangerous than the sex.

(1934 – ) comedian

New York, the nation's thyroid gland.

(1890 – 1957) author & journalist

We have a drinking game in Australia, it’s called drinking.

(1977 – ) Australian comedian

Washington is a place where men praise courage and act on elaborate personal cost-benefit calculations.

(1908 – 2006) Canadian-American economist

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

In Vegas, I got into a long argument with the man at the roulette wheel over what I considered to be an odd number.

(1955 – ) comedian, actor & writer

A Frenchwoman, when double-crossed, will kill her rival; the Italian woman would rather kill her deceitful lover; the Englishwoman simply breaks off relations – but they all will console themselves with another man.

(1899 – 1978) French actor

Disneyland is Vegas for children.

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

My parents didn’t want to move to Florida, but they turned sixty, and that’s the law.

(1954 – ) comedian & television actor

I like Mexico; it’s so… Mexican.

(1908 – 1990) American actress

When I was a kid my parents moved a lot… but I always found them.

(1921 – 2004) stand-up comedian & actor

The English contribution to world cuisine – the chip.

(1939 – ) English actor, comedian, writer & producer

Other states are trying to abolish the death penalty… mine's putting in an express lane.

(1956 – ) American stand-up comedian

L.A. is nothing but a bunch of driving, and I hate all that damn driving 'cause it interferes with my drinking.

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

Maybe this world is another planet's Hell.

(1894 – 1963) English writer

I'm sitting on top of the world, and I've got hemorrhoids.

(1921 – 2004) stand-up comedian & actor

Some people say Birmingham looks great in the summer. I reckon it looks better in the rear view mirror.

Canadian stand-up comedian, actor & writer

Never, ever, fly on the airline of the country from which you are departing.

Small Town: A place where nothing happens every minute.

It is by the goodness of God that in our country we have those three unspeakably precious things: freedom of speech, freedom of conscience, and the prudence to never practice either of them.

Samuel Clemens (1835 – 1910) author & humorist