Subject: Appearance (Page 38)

Nothing wise was ever printed upon an apron.

(1973 – ) American comedian

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

singer & musician

We all get heavier as we get older because there’s a lot more information in our heads.

professional basketball player

Buster Douglas went to bed as a 231-pound world champion and woke up as a 270-pound parade float.

American sports columnist

Liposuction: A surgical procedure from which the patient emerges significantly lighter in both pounds and dollars.

Alfred Hitchcock: One look at you and I know there's famine in the land.

Shaw’s reply: One look at you, Mr. Hitchcock, and I know who caused it.

(1856 – 1950) Irish playwright & socialist

He is so fat… his high school graduation picture was an aerial photograph.

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

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

I know [my head] is big because every time I'm in a picture, it always looks like I'm really close to the camera.

Canadian comedian

Whoa. Where you going in those pants? 1982?

(1964 – ) American actress, producer & director

You may admire a girl's curves on the first introduction, but the second meeting shows up new angles.

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

I always wanted to get into politics, but I was never light enough to make the team.

(1925 – 2007) humorist & columnist

If you told her to haul butt, she would have to make two trips.

Yeah, I know I’m ugly… I said to a bartender, ‘Make me a zombie;’ he said ‘God beat me to it.’

(1921 – 2004) stand-up comedian & actor

Clothes make the man; naked people have little or no influence on society.

Samuel Clemens (1835 – 1910) author & humorist

Niles and I have decided to donate all your things to charity. We’re donating your clothes to the blind.

(1955 – ) American actor, comedian, producer, director & singer

Brassiere: A bust stop.

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

(1964 – ) American stand-up comedian

This morning when I put on my underwear I could hear the Fruit-of-The-Loom guys laughing at me.

(1921 – 2004) stand-up comedian & actor

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

(1948 – ) basketball coach

How would you like to feel the way she looks?

(1890 – 1977) comedian, actor & television host