Quotes & Jokes by Joan Rivers / page 3

I succeeded by saying what everyone else is thinking.

My husband killed himself. And it was my fault. We were making love and I took the bag off my head.

I hate the term 'partner.' 'Yes, we're partners... This is my life partner, Teddy.' Jacoby & Meyers are partners. Ben & Jerry are partners. Bausch + Lomb are partners. You and Teddy are fuck-buddies.

All my friends are dying. That's why I always wear black.

I hate housework! You make the beds, you do the dishes and six months later you have to start all over again.

Once I was having lunch in a fancy restaurant with Lily Tomlin and Richard Pryor. We were all struggling comics together and the day we had lunch, any one of us could have picked up the check. That's when I knew I'd made it.

Once you begin to believe there is help "out there," you will know it to be true.

My parents just didn't like me. Till I was 9, my mother was trying to get an abortion. That sticks with you. That hurts. She said to her doctor, 'Is there any possible way to get rid of this thing?'

My face has been tucked in more times than a bedsheet at the Holiday Inn.

What are people going to do? Fire me? I've been fired before. Not book me? I've been out of work before. I don't care.

I use a smoke alarm as a timer.

I blame my mother for my poor sex life. All she told me was 'the man goes on top and the woman underneath.' For three years my husband and I slept in bunk beds.

Never be afraid to laugh at yourself, after all, you could be missing out on the joke of the century.

I think any celebrity that adopts a child from a third world country is a fool.

Everyone thinks Angelina Jolie was the first celebrity baby hoarder, but she wasn't. Before Angelina there was Mia Farrow. Mia had an entire farm full of children. I think she got them at Costco.