Subject: Places (Page 41)

All the world’s a stage and most of us are desperately unrehearsed.

(1880 – 1964) Irish dramatist

New Jersey is to America as America is to the world.

(1977 – ) American television producer, writer & comedian

Of course, America had often been discovered before Columbus, but it had always been hushed up.

(1854 – 1900) Irish dramatist, novelist & poet

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

Americans detest all lies except lies spoken in public or printed lies.

(1853 – 1937) journalist, writer & editor

The New England conscience does not stop you from doing what you shouldn't – it just stops you from enjoying it.

(1917 – 1998) author, critic, animal rights activist

I never believed in Santa Claus because I knew no white dude would come into my neighborhood after dark.

(1932 – 2017) comedian, social activist, critic & writer

Mason-Dixon Line: A geographical division between “you all” and “youse guys.”

It only takes a room of Americans for the English and Australians to realize how much we have in common.

(1957 – ) English actor, writer, journalist, comedian & film director

The English instinctively admire any man who has no talent and is modest about it.

(1877 – 1947) British diarist & critic

That's still how Irish people are seen, as twinkly-eyed f**kers with a pig under their arm, high-stepping it around the world, going 'I'll paint your house now, but watch out, I might steal the ladder later, ohohoho!' – which is only half true!

(1971 – ) Irish comedian, actor & writer

I would like to live in Manchester, England; the transition between Manchester and death would be unnoticeable.

Samuel Clemens (1835 – 1910) author & humorist

First of all, it's not that big, so I'm pretty sure a guy came up with that name.

comedian, writer, actor & producer

Keegan Fills Schmeichel’s Gap With Seaman

You can go home again – you just can’t stay there.

A country can be judged by the quality of its proverbs.

Rome wasn’t born in a day.

professional baseball player

Boundary: In political geography, an imaginary line between two nations, separating the imaginary rights of one from the imaginary rights of the other.

The world gets better every day – then worse again in the evening.

(1868 – 1930) cartoonist, humorist & journalist

China has a population of a billion people; that means even if you’re a one-in-a-million kind of guy, there are still a thousand others exactly like you

(1952 – ) American writer & comedian

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

(1956 – ) American comedian