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“My philosophy
like colour TV
is all there
in black and white”
Monty Python

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Geography

 America has only three cities: New York, San Francisco, and New Orleans. Everywhere else is Cleveland. 
Tennessee Williams (1911-1983)
 Continental people have sex lives; the English have hot-water bottles. 
George Mikes (1912-1987)
 Denial ain't just a river in Egypt. 
Mark Twain (1835-1910)
 Dublin is a city where you can see a sparrow fall to the ground, and God watching it. 
Conor Cruise O'Brien (1917-2008)
 Dublin University contains the cream of Ireland: rich and thick. 
Samuel Beckett (1906-1989)
 Geography is everywhere. 
Anonymous
 Happiness was Lubbock, Texas, in my rearview mirror. 
Mac Davis (1942- )
 I don't even know what street Canada is on. 
Al Capone (1899-1947)
 If Irish were to die completely [in Ireland], the standard of English here, both in the spoken and written word, would sink to a level probably as low as that obtaining in England and it would stop there only because it could go no lower. 
Myles na gCopaleen (1911-1966)
 In America a hundred years is a long time, in Europe a hundred miles is a long way. 
Anonymous
 It's a small world, but I wouldn't want to paint it. 
Steven Wright (1955- )
 Miami Beach is where neon goes to die. 
Lenny Bruce (1926-1966)
 Moscow is a city that has much suffering ahead of it. 
Anton Chekhov (1860-1904)
 New York: where everyone mutinies but no one deserts. 
Harry Hirschfield (1885-1974)
 New Zealanders who emigrate to Australia raise the IQ of both countries. 
Robert Muldoon (1921-1992)
 South Africa, renowned both far and wide
For politics and little else beside. 
Roy Campbell (1901-1957)
 The art of Biography
Is different from Geography.
Geography is about maps,
But Biography is about chaps. 
Edmund Clerihew Bentley (1875-1956)
 The people of Crete unfortunately make more history than they can consume locally. 
H.H. Munro (Saki) (1870-1916)
 The way to ensure summer in England is to have it framed and glazed in a comfortable room. 
Horace Walpole (1717-1797)
 What Made Milwaukee Famous Has Made a Loser Out of Me 
Glenn Sutton (1937-2007)
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