Subject: Appearance (Page 31)

When you have a fat friend there are no see-saws… only catapults.

(1973 – ) American comedian

A narcissist is someone better looking than you are.

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

The quickest way to a man's heart really is through his stomach, because then you don't have to chop through that pesky rib cage.

(1980 – ) cartoonist

Whatever you may look like, marry a man your own age – as your beauty fades, so will his eyesight.

(1917 – 2012) comedian & actress

A woman's dress should be like a barbed-wire fence: serving its purpose without obstructing the view.

(1934 – ) Italian actress

I’ve lost seven pounds this week… or, as my girlfriend calls it, ‘the baby’.

British comedian & emcee

I was walking down the street, something caught my eye – and dragged it fifteen feet.

(1956 – ) American comedian

An ounce of image is worth a pound of performance.

Your dresses should be tight enough to show you're a woman and loose enough to show you're a lady.

(1898 – 1981) American costume designer

He has turned almost alarmingly blond – he's gone past platinum, he must be plutonium; his hair is coordinated with his teeth.

(1919 – 2001) American film critic

Brassiere: A bust stop.

You can never be too skinny or too rich.

(1915 – 1978) socialite

My photographs don't do me justice… they just look like me.

(1917 – 2012) comedian & actress

I stopped buying women’s magazines; the only time I ever see someone who looks like me is under the word ‘Before’.

(1975 – ) English comedian

With female menopause you gain weight and get hot flashes; with male menopause you get to date young girls and drive motorcycles.

(1953 – ) comedian, dancer & writer

I just lost 10 pounds on a new diet called ‘the flu.’

(1970 – ) American actor, producer & stand up comedian

Whatever the occasion, [the Queen] has a face which demonstrably says ‘I don’t give a royal s**t.

(1977 – ) British political comedian & television host

If a turtle doesn’t have a shell, is he homeless or naked?

(1937 – 2008) stand-up comedian, social critic, actor & author

I washed my edible underwear and now they're gone.


When you’re gay every party is a bad sweater party.

(1970 –) American stand-up comedian

Relax, Georgie, I'm just making my collar and cuffs match.

(1908 – 1942) American actress