Subject: Places (Page 36)

The world would not be in such a snarl, had Marx been Groucho instead of Karl.

(1888 – 1989) American composer & lyricist

The one great principle of the English law is, to make business for itself.

(1812 – 1870) English novelist

Hollywood is bounded on the north, south, east and west by agents.

(1904 – 1999) author, editor, radio host

The museum boasted owning the original version of Beethoven's unfinished basement.

comedian

If the people of New Zealand want to be a part of our world, I believe they should hop off their islands, and push 'em closer.

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

Home: A place where man goes to raise a fuss because something went wrong at the office.

England is better only because I stand out there as ‘unusual.’

(1956 – ) American comedian

Welcome to Hell… here's your accordion.

(1950 – ) American cartoonist The Far Side

Drug Kingpin Amado Fuentes died from 9 hours of liposuction and plastic surgery – or, as it's commonly known here in Beverly Hills, natural causes.

(1956 – ) comedian, television host, social critic & political commentator

I bought these shoes in Taiwan, and they said in the inside “Made around the corner.”

(1926 – 2012) Irish comedian & actor

If all the nations in the world are in debt, where did all the money go?

(1955 – ) comedian, actor & writer

The only good thing about playing for Cleveland is you don't have to make road trips there.

American baseball player

Americans are like the straight, white man of cultures.

(1978 – ) Australian comedian, writer & actress

It's too bad I'm not as wonderful a person as people say I am, because the world could use a few people like that.

(1936 – ) American actor, director & screenwriter

In a British hotel, the words “Can I help you sir?” mean roughly: “What the hell do you want?”

(1922 – 1995) English novelist & poet

In every country, they make fun of city; in U.S. you make fun of Cleveland; in Russia, we make fun of Cleveland.

(1951 – ) Soviet-American comedian

I did not fully understand the dread term 'terminal illness' until I saw Heathrow Airport for myself.

(1935 – 1994) English writer

As the plane lands in Glasgow airport, passengers are reminded to set their watch back, 25 years.

(1972 – ) Scottish comedian

The smallest interval of time known to man is that which occurs in Manhattan between the traffic signal turning green and the taxi driver behind you blowing his horn.

(1925 – 2005) television host

Socialite: Whatever possessed you to be born in a place like Lowell, Massachusetts?

Whistler: I wished to be near my mother.

(1834 – 1903) American-born, British-based artist

President Bush has just one question for the American voters: is the rich person you're working for better off now than they were 4 years ago?

(1950 – ) comedian & television host