Subject: Places (Page 3)

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

… New Jersey?

(1973 – ) American actress

Night Club: A place where they take the rest out of restaurant and put the din in dinner.

Without geography you're nowhere.

(1946 – ) singer, songwriter, author & businessman

I asked the barmaid for a quickie; the man next to me said, 'It's pronounced quiche.'


Hollywood is the gold cap on a tooth that should have been pulled out years ago.

(1880 – 1946) comedian, actor, juggler & writer

I saw a tree fall in the woods, and I didn’t hear it.

(1955 – ) comedian, actor & writer

What Iran needs now is a more modern leader – a mullah lite.

(1973 – ) Iranian-born British comedian

Washington is a much better place if you are asking questions rather than answering them.

China is a big country, inhabited by many Chinese.

(1890 – 1970) French president, general & statesman

Contrary to popular belief, English women do not wear tweed nightgowns.

(1897-1987) actress & comedian

Just because your voice reaches halfway around the world doesn't mean you are wiser than when it reached only to the end of the bar.

(1908 – 1965) American broadcast journalist & newscaster

It's [Honolulu] got everything: sand for the children, sun for the wife, sharks for the wife's mother.

(1927 – 2018) British comedian, singer & songwriter

I told my mother-in-law that my house was her house, and she said, ‘Get the hell off my property.’

(1935 – 2014) American comedian, television personality, writer & director

I was in Kashmir last weekend… went to visit one of my sweaters.

(1947 — ) American actor, writer, comedian & director

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


Welcome to Hell… here's your accordion.

(1950 – ) American cartoonist The Far Side

The Holocaust was an obscene period in our nation's history. I mean in this century's history. But we all lived in this century. Well, I didn't live in this century.

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

I’m thrilled that the American people stopped him from running this time; as a citizen, I’m happy about that, but as a comic, I weep.

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

France has neither winter nor summer nor morals; apart from these drawbacks it is a fine country.

Samuel Clemens (1835 – 1910) author & humorist

Space is almost infinite; as a matter of fact, we think it is infinite.

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