Old age is always ten years more than we are.
JOAN RIVERS
JOAN RIVERS
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Comediennes are the lucky ones, because if you’re funny, you can be 125 years old and they will still accept you.
Joan RiversJoan Rivers I said to my husband, ‘Why don’t you call out my name when we’re making love?’ He said, ‘I don’t want to wake you up.’
Joan RiversJoan Rivers To the pessimist the light at the end of the tunnel is another train.
Joan RiversJoan Rivers One of the most rebellious things a woman can do is allow people to think she’s mean.
Joan RiversJoan Rivers With age comes wisdom. You don’t need big boobs to be feminine. Look at Liberace.
Joan RiversJoan Rivers I use a smoke alarm as a timer.
Joan RiversJoan Rivers Don’t cook. Don’t clean. No man will ever make love to a woman because she waxed the linoleum.
Joan RiversJoan Rivers I was so ugly that my parents sent my picture to ‘ripley’s believe it or not’ – they sent it back and said, “we don’t believe it.”
Joan RiversJoan Rivers Thank God we’re living in a country where the sky’s the limit, the stores are open late and you can shop in bed thanks to television.
Joan RiversJoan Rivers If you don’t want gays in the military, make the uniforms ugly.
Joan RiversJoan Rivers On her daughter Melissa: The only time she really cried is when I sat her down and told her that she was not adopted.
Joan RiversJoan Rivers A man can sleep around, no questions asked, but if a woman makes nineteen or twenty mistakes she’s a tramp.
Joan RiversJoan Rivers I wish I could tell you it gets better. It doesn’t get better. You get better.
Joan RiversJoan Rivers Life goes by fast. Enjoy it…Everyone gets so upset about the wrong things.
Joan RiversJoan Rivers Better laid than never.
Joan RiversJoan Rivers We all mourn in our own way. I mourn with a great steak.
Joan RiversJoan Rivers
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I had been playing polo, and I decided to give up at the age of 50.
Prince PhilipPrince Philip Books are certainly old fashioned, but only people with a very limited perception are silly enough to condemn ideas because of their age.
Prince PhilipPrince Philip We are who we hang out with. Hang with happy people & live a happy life. That’s a secret I learned at a very young age.
Little PaulsonLittle Paulson We’re taught at such an early age to be against the communists, yet most of us don’t have the faintest idea what communism is. Only a fool lets somebody else tell him who his enemy is.
Assata ShakurAssata Shakur The religious persecution of the ages has been done under what was claimed to be the command of God.
Susan B. AnthonySusan B. Anthony Constitution is not a mere lawyers document, it is a vehicle of Life, and its spirit is always the spirit of Age.
B. R. AmbedkarB. R. Ambedkar Don’t be afraid to love all your broken pieces. They will finally wether with the waters of ages, shrinking into friendly gemlike pebbles that are soft to your soul.
Bisma IjazBisma Ijaz Your timeless self does not age and has no fear of the future. Contemplate your physical self and all its possessions, and practice laughing peacefully at it all.
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