Subject: Places (Page 22)

What the world really needs is more love and less paperwork.

(1918 – 1990) American actress & singer

If an Englishman gets run down by a truck he apologizes to the truck.

(1934 – ) comedian

There's always something fishy about the French.

(1899 – 1973) English playwright, actor, composer, director & songwriter

The hardest part of running competitively in Wales must be keeping up with the Joneses.

(1973 – ) English writer & stand-up comedian

We are for the underdog, no matter how much of a dog he is.

(1898 – 1991) U.S. senator (Kentucky) & Major League Baseball commissioner

The first thing that strikes a visitor to Paris is a taxi.

(1894 – 1956) American radio comedian

We have really everything in common with America nowadays, except, of course, language.

(1854 – 1900) Irish dramatist, novelist & poet

California is a nice place to live – if you happen to be an orange.

(1894 – 1956) American radio comedian

Collectable Spoons of the 3rd Reich

You might be a redneck if… you think the French Riviera is a foreign car.

(1958 – ) stand-up comedian & television personality

There are some circles in America where it seems to be more socially acceptable to carry a handgun than a packet of cigarettes.

(1928 – ) British journalist, writer & columnist

Any time three New Yorkers get into a cab without an argument, a bank has just been robbed.

(1917 – 2012) comedian & actress

Neutral countries – aren’t.

If they'd lower the taxes and get rid of the smog and clean up the traffic mess, I really believe I'd settle here until the next earthquake.

(1890 – 1977) comedian, actor & television host

Also-ran: A British athlete.

British writer, cartoonist, poet & performer

You couldn't be a racist and live in L.A.; you'd be exhausted.

(1973 – ) American stand-up comedian

War without France would be like… World War II.

Coffee in England always tastes like a chemistry experiment.

(1890 – 1976) British crime writer of novels, short stories & plays

In Russia we only had two TV channels: Channel One was propaganda, Channel Two consisted of a KGB officer telling you: “Turn back at once to Channel One.”

(1951 – ) Soviet-American comedian

What I gained by being in France was learning to be better satisfied with my own country.

(1709 – 1784) English author, essayist, critic, editor & lexicographer

Room service has an unlisted number.

(1906 – 1998) English-born American comedian