Subject: Appearance (Page 5)

I manufactured clown shoes… which was no small feat.

Canadian stand-up comedian, actor & writer

I am not… totally unreceptive to color providing it makes its appearance quietly, deferentially, and without undue fanfare.

(1950 – ) writer & humorist

Eat well, stay fit, die anyway.

You know your girlfriend is getting fat when she can fit into your wife's clothes.

(1964 – ) American stand-up comedian

A woman whose face looked as if it had been made of sugar and someone had licked it.

(1856 – 1950) Irish playwright & socialist

Eddie: In this body there is a thin person dying to get out.

Gran: Just the one dear?

(1925 – ) English actress

I got the classic Italian male body; I got the ass of a 270-pound man and the chest of a small Romanian gymnast.

(1953 – ) American comedian & writer

One out of every three Americans… weighs as much as the other two.

(1957 – 2007) American stand-up comedian & actor

He now looks like a Barbie doll that has been whittled at by a malicious brother.

(1943 – ) English opera critic, author & journalist

It's hard to feel fit as a fiddle when you're shaped like a cello.

American basketball coach & executive

Wrinkles should merely indicate where smiles have been.

Samuel Clemens (1835 – 1910) author & humorist

Men look at breasts the way women look at babies – 'Aw, isn't that lovely.'

(1971 – ) Irish comedian, actor & writer

Cultivate your curves – they may be dangerous but they won't be avoided.

(1893 – 1980) actress, playwright, screenwriter & sex symbol

She was a large woman who seemed not so much dressed as upholstered.

(1860 – 1937) Scottish author, dramatist (creator of Peter Pan)

I was never over-weight, just under-tall; the correct height for my weight at the moment is seven feet ten and a half inches.

(1951 – ) Irish comedian & singer

You know you’re getting fat when your socks don’t fit.

(1969 – ) comedian & actor

Baroness Summerskill: Mr Cooper, have you looked in the mirror lately and seen the state of your nose?
Cooper: Well, madam, have you looked in the mirror and seen the state of your nose? Boxing is my excuse. What's yours?

English boxing champion

A lady is one who never shows her underwear… unintentionally.

(1893 – 1991) novelist, biographer & playwright

Alcohol does not make ugly people attractive; it makes it so you could care less that they’re ugly.

(1967 – ) American stand-up comedian & actor

I’ve put on some weight recently; my wife says it’s just puppy fat, but I’ve been eating other things as well.

comedian

Now, it’s true I married my wife for her looks… but not the ones she's been givin’ me lately.

(1958 – ) stand-up comedian & television personality