Subject: Appearance (Page 40)

[to Sam] … You’re almost as good looking as Diane says you think you are.

(1923 – ) British actress, dancer, pianist & singer

Terry Downes' face looked as if he had slept on it.

English broadcaster, journalist & author

But he was the worst dresser in organized baseball; he made Inspector Clouseau look like a candidate for Mr. Blackwell's list of best-dressed men.

American baseball pitcher

You can say what you like about long dresses, but they cover a multitude of shins.

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

I hate the beach. I hate the sun. I’m pale and I’m redheaded. I don't tan – I stroke!

(1935 – ) movie actor, director & comedian

That's the time of your life when even your birthday suit needs pressing.

(1903 – 2003) English-born American comedian & actor

You can never be too skinny or too rich.

(1915 – 1978) socialite

The fashion magazines are suggesting that women wear clothes that are ‘age appropriate’ … for me that would be a shroud.

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

Hamper: A wicker container with a lid, usually surrounded by, but not containing, dirty clothing.

Whoever named it necking is a poor judge of anatomy.

(1890 – 1977) comedian, actor & television host

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 had one eye, and the popular prejudice runs in favor of two.

(1812 – 1870) English novelist

All these guys with six pack abs, and I'm the only one with a keg.

cartoon character in The Simpsons (Dan Castellaneta)

When you've seen a nude infant doing a backward somersault you know why clothing exists.

(1957 – ) English actor, writer, journalist, comedian & film director

You’re prettier than a spotted heifer in a pansy patch!

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

(1970 –) American stand-up comedian

I base most of my fashion sense on whether or not it itches.

(1946 – 1989) comedian & actress

He is so fat… he can't even jump to a conclusion.

Never trust a man who combs his hair straight from his left armpit.

(1884 – 1980) author & wit

Change of fashion is the tax levied by the industry of the poor on the vanity of the rich.

(1741 – 1794) French writer

Clothes and manners do not make the man; but, when he is made, they greatly improve his appearance.

(1813 – 1887) American clergyman, social reformer & abolitionist