Subject: Places (Page 42)

In America, it's not how much an item costs, it's how much you save.

The only time the world beats a path to your door is when you are in the bathroom.

Americans will put up with anything provided it doesn't block traffic.

1867 – 1931) English novelist

We Americans live in a nation where the medical-care system is second to none in the world, unless you count maybe 25 or 30 little scuzzball countries like Scotland that we could vaporize in seconds if we felt like it.

(1947 – ) American columnist & humorist

The whole world is turning into a regular Sodom and Glocca Morra.

television character, All In the Family (Carroll O’Connor)

The country where they invented bacon flavor mouthwash.

(1971 – ) Irish comedian, actor & writer

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

(1890 – 1975) American baseball manager

The last time I saw African kids this excited, Madonna was at their school with a net.

(1980 – ) English comedian, television and radio presenter & actor

President Bush and the Indian prime minister agreed Thursday on a landmark nuclear energy agreement in which the U.S. would share its nuclear know-how and fuel with India. And, in exchange, India would take all our jobs.

(1970 – ) American actress, comedian, writer & producer

I find it hard to say, because when I was there, it seemed to be shut.

(1924 – 2009) English broadcaster, writer, politician & chef

The French, they say, live to eat; the English, on the other hand, eat to die.

(1949 – ) English novelist

Flying from the U.S. to Tokyo takes approximately as long as law school.

(1947 – ) American columnist & humorist

Venezuela! Great, that's the Italian city with the guys in the boats, right?

American boxing promoter

Stand on two phone books almost anywhere in Iowa and you get a view.

American author

The time to enjoy a European trip is about three weeks after unpacking.

(1866 – 1944) American writer, newspaper columnist, playwright & humorist

You haven’t lived until you’ve died in California.

(1927 – ) Canadian-born American comedian & actor

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

(1879 – 1935) humorist & social commentator

I’m so American that I’m barely informed enough to have an opinion, but entitled enough to yell about it.

American comedian

Hoboken – lovely town, often called 'the Tennessee of New Jersey.'

(1954 – ) American comedian, writer & musician

No other country would use their technology to invent a fat substitute that when you put it on potato chips causes involuntary loose stools.

(1961 – ) comedian, writer, radio & television personality & blogger

When they said Canada, I thought it was up in the mountains somewhere.

(1926 – 1962) actress, sex symbol