Subject: Appearance (Page 5)

Things could always be worse; for instance, you could be ugly and work in the Post Office.

writer, humorist, columnist & speaker

Al, why don't you get a haircut?

(1897 – 1961) American actress

You'd be surprised how much it costs to look this cheap!

(1946 – ) singer, songwriter, author & actress

I ain’t afraid to die fat… that’s my pallbearers’ worry.


I’m the female equivalent of a counterfeit $20 bill; half of what you see is a pretty good reproduction, the rest is a fraud.

(1946 – ) American recording artist, actress, director & record producer

Marty Noble: How come you’re wearing argyle socks?
Myers: I’m not. I got these at Woolworth’s.

professional baseball player

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

I saw what’s going on under my chin; I don’t want to be the one the president has to pardon on Thanksgiving.

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

The trouble with jogging is that, by the time you realize you’re not in shape for it, it’s too far to walk back.

(1908 – 1980) businessman, humorist

This girl was ugly. They used her in prisons to cure sex offenders.

(1921 – 2004) stand-up comedian & actor

I’d like to borrow [Cassius] Clay’s body for 48 hours. There are three guys I’d like to beat up and four women I’d like to make love to.

(1919 – 1998) American sportswriter

Tattoo: Permanent proof of temporary insanity.

A dress has no purpose unless it makes a man want to take it off.

(1935 – 2004) French playwright, novelist & screenwriter

I always say beauty is only sin deep.

(1870 – 1916) British writer

I'm the only woman who can walk in Central Park at night… and reduce the crime rate.

(1917 – 2012) comedian & actress

No one has ever had an idea in a dress suit.

(1891 – 1941) Canadian physician & physiologist

He now looks like a Barbie doll that has been whittled at by a malicious brother.

(1943 – ) English opera critic, author & journalist

She is so fat… when you tell her to haul ass, she gotta make two trips.

From 30 feet away she looked like a lot of class; from ten feet away she looked like something made up to be seen from 30 feet away.

(1888 – 1959) detective novelist & screenwriter

Bagpipes covered in hair.

(1971 – ) Irish comedian, actor & writer

I’m pale and I’m redheaded. I don’t tan… I stroke.

(1935 – ) movie actor, director & comedian