Subject: Appearance (Page 21)

When you wear new shoes for the first time, everyone will step on them.

I would love to speak a foreign language but I can't; so I grew hair under my arms instead.

stand-up comedian

She’s like a phenomenon of nature, like Niagara Falls or the Grand Canyon; you can’t talk to it, it can’t talk to you, all you can do is stand back and be awed by it.

(1897 – 1977) American filmwriter, producer & director

A narcissist is someone better looking than you are.

(1925 – 2012) author, playwright, essayist & screenwriter

Doctors tell me I have the body of a thirty year old. I know I have the brain of a fifteen year old. If you've got both, you can play baseball.

American baseball player

He was a man of great statue.

John Hurt looks like Joan of Arc, after she's burnt at stake.

Eternal nothingness is fine if you happen to be dressed for it.

(1935 – ) movie actor, director & comedian

He looked like something that had gotten loose from Macy's Thanksgiving Day Parade.

(1888 – 1964) comedian & actor

I see her as one great stampede of lips directed at the nearest derriere.

(1899 – 1973) English playwright, actor, composer, director & songwriter

Englishwomen's shoes look as if they had been made by someone who had often heard shoes described, but had never seen any.

(1910 – 1997) American writer

That baby's cuter than a speckled pup in a red wagon.

My face has been tucked in more times than a bedsheet at the Holiday Inn.

(1935 – 2014) American comedian, television personality, writer & director

I thought to myself, join the army… it’s free; so I figured while I’m here I’ll lose a few pounds… I’m going to walk out of here a Lean, Mean, Fightin’ Machine!

(1950 – 1994) Canadian actor & comedian

I'm at an age when my back goes out more than I do.

(1917 – 2012) comedian & actress

Makeup: Lipstick, eyeliner, blush which ironically makes Mom look better while making her young daughter look “like a tramp.”

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

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

I went to look for a used car and found my wife's dress in the back seat.

(1921 – 2004) stand-up comedian & actor

I had a girlfriend that was so fat she had her own postal code.

(1921 – 2004) stand-up comedian & actor

Brian London possesses the most unbeautiful face – it looks as if it, at one time, fell apart and was reassembled by a drunken mechanic.

English broadcaster, journalist & author

He looks like King Edward – the potato, not the monarch.

British satirist, comedian, writer, broadcaster and editor