Subject: Places » World

Maybe this world is another planet's Hell.

(1894 – 1963) English writer

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

(1873 – 1931) businessman, politician & diplomat

The sum of the intelligence on the planet is a constant; the population is growing.

The more you find out about the world, the more opportunities there are to laugh at it.

(the Science Guy) (1955 – ) American science educator, writer & scientist

What this world needs is a damned good plague.

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

World: A place that was built in six days – and looks it.

I'm astounded by people who want to 'know' the universe when it's hard enough to find your way around Chinatown.

(1935 – ) movie actor, director & comedian

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

(1977 – ) American television producer, writer & comedian

A lie gets halfway around the world before the truth has a chance to get its pants on.

(1874 – 1965) British prime minister, politician, statesman & orator

A citizen of America will cross the ocean to fight for democracy, but won’t cross the street to vote in a national election.

(1915 – 1977) columnist, writer & actor

Sometimes I worry about being a success in a mediocre world.

(1939 – ) comedian, actress, writer & producer

The world is round; it has no point.

writer, humorist, columnist & speaker

I am certain there is too much certainty in the world.

(1942 – 2008) American author, producer, director & screenwriter

What this world needs is a damned good plague.

In a perfect world, a fair world, Bob Hayes should be forced to carry a small calf on his shoulder when he runs the dashes…Mark Spitz, in all fairness, would swim with a sea anchor…[and] Ella Fitzgerald must sing every note with a mouth full of Tootsie Rolls.

(1919 – ) American sportswriter

Ours is a world where people don't know what they want and are willing to go through hell to get it.

(1878 – 1937) humorist, journalist & author

Columbus went around the world in 1492; that isn’t a lot of strokes when you consider the course.

(1942 – ) American professional golfer

Successful people are the ones who think up things for the rest of the world to keep busy at.

(1878 – 1937) humorist, journalist & author

The earth is a used Kleenex on the universe's nightstand.

(1959 – ) American stand-up comedian, actor & writer

I'm sitting on top of the world, and I've got hemorrhoids.

(1921 – 2004) stand-up comedian & actor