Subject: Appearance (Page 22)

With four sisters about the house, I could never get my hands on a comb.

American boxing champion

Fashion: Something that goes out of style as soon as most people have one.

She is so thin… she doesn’t cast a shadow.

My makeup team is nominated for “Best Special Effects.”

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

The only man who can fool all the women all the time is a fashion designer.

Beware of all enterprises that require new clothes.

(1817 – 1862) American author, poet, philosopher,, naturalist & historian

He looks as though he’s been weaned on a pickle.

(1884 – 1980) author & wit

I suppose you know you have a wonderful body. I’d like to do it in clay.

(1925 – ) American singer & actress

Beyond the hair, tattoos and earrings, he's just like you and me.

(1948 – ) basketball coach

When I don't look like the tragic muse, I look like the smoky relic of the great Boston Fire.

(1832 – 1888) novelist

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

All God’s children are not beautiful; most of God’s children are, in fact, barely presentable.

(1950 – ) writer & humorist

… an old man who dresses like a Hooter’s waitress.

(1965 – 2010) American stand-up comedian & television personality

An ounce of sequins can be worth a pound of home cooking.

(1946 – ) American magazine columnist, author, lecturer & playwright

The simple truth is that balding African-American men look cool when they shave their heads, whereas balding white men look like giant thumbs.

(1947 – ) American columnist & humorist

If you’re up against a girl with big boobs, bring her to the net and make her hit backhand volleys. It’s the hardest shot for the well-endowed; like when I used to beat Ann Jones, she could hit under them or over them but never through them.

American professional tennis player

If people don’t want to listen to you, what makes you think they want to hear from your sweater.

(1950 – ) writer & humorist

Some women hold up dresses that are so ugly and they always say the same thing: ‘This looks much better on.’… On what?… On fire?

(1954 – ) American actress & comedian

So skinny she’d have to stand up twice to make a shadow.

Inside me lives a skinny woman crying to get out; but I can usually shut her up with cookies.

singer & musician

It's like I disprove evolution and intelligent design at once.

(1978 – ) American comic writer