Subject: Places (Page 4)

The English should give Ireland home rule – and reserve the motion picture rights.

(1879 – 1935) humorist & social commentator

The best way to keep children home is to make the home atmosphere pleasant – and let the air out of the tires.

(1893 – 1967) writer, humorist & poet

They've great respect for the dead in Hollywood, but none for the living.

(1909 – 1959) Australian-born American actor

Vacation: Two weeks on the sunny sands – and the rest of the year on the financial rocks.

(1920 – 2001) American writer & humorist

Even the police have an unlisted number.

(1908 – 1996) actor & comedian

Room service has an unlisted number.

(1906 – 1998) English-born American comedian

Trying to give my kids an education in Los Angeles is a nightmare with the guns, the gangs, the drugs – and I'm home schooling them.

American comedian & writer

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

You want a friend in Washington?… get a dog.

(1884 – 1972) 33rd U.S. president

America: A nation that conceives many odd inventions for getting somewhere but can think of nothing to do when it gets there.

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

comedian

England, the heart of a rabbit in the body of a lion.

Carter wants to go to Washington; he'll feel right at home there – he was raised on a nut farm.

(1903 – 2003) English-born American comedian & actor

A farm is an irregular patch of nettles bounded by short-term notes, containing a fool and his wife who didn’t know enough to stay in the city.

(1904 – 1979) Jewish-American humorist, author & screenwriter

No one ever went broke in Hollywood underestimating the intelligence of the public.

(1883 – 1963) American writer & hostess

I can play anywhere; First, Third, Left field… anywhere but Philadelphia.

(1942 – ) American baseball player

We’re the greatest country on Earth except when it comes to getting shit done.

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

The mystery of government is not how Washington works but how to make it stop.

(1947 – ) author, humorist & satirist

The world is divided into people who do things – and people who get the credit.

(1873 – 1931) businessman, politician & diplomat

I was walking down the street, something caught my eye – and dragged it fifteen feet.

(1956 – ) American comedian

Two hundred million Americans, and there ain’t two good catchers among ‘em.

(1890 – 1975) American baseball manager