Neurotics build castles in the air, psychotics live in them. My mother cleans them.

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Rita Rudneris an American comedian. Beginning her career as a Broadway dancer, Rudner noticed the lack of female comedians in New York City and turned to stand-up comedy, where she has performed for over three decades.

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Some women hold up dresses that are so ugly and they always say the same thing: ‘This looks much better on.’ On what? On fire?

Rita Rudner

American comedian

They usually have two tellers in my local bank, except when it’s very busy, when they have one.

Rita Rudner

American comedian

It’s so great to find that one special person you want to annoy for the rest of your life.

Rita Rudner

American comedian

I got kicked out of ballet class because I pulled a groin muscle. It wasn’t mine.

Rita Rudner

American comedian

Men who have a pierced ear are better prepared for marriage – they’ve experienced pain and bought jewelry.

Rita Rudner

American comedian

I know I want to have children while my parents are still young enough to take care of them.

Rita Rudner

American comedian

I love being married. It’s so great to find that one special person you want to annoy for the rest of your life.

Rita Rudner

American comedian

I want to have children, but my friends scare me. One of my friends told me she was in labor for 36 hours. I don’t even want to do anything that feels good for 36 hours.

Rita Rudner

American comedian

I was a vegetarian until I started leaning toward the sunlight.

Rita Rudner

American comedian

I wonder if other dogs think poodles are members of a weird religious cult.

Rita Rudner

American comedian

Before I met my husband, I’d never fallen in love. I’d stepped in it a few times.

Rita Rudner

American comedian

My husband gave me a necklace. It’s fake. I requested fake. Maybe I’m paranoid, but in this day and age, I don’t want something around my neck that’s worth more than my head.

Rita Rudner

American comedian

Men reach their sexual peak at eighteen. Women reach theirs at thirty-five. Do you get the feeling that God is playing a practical joke?

Rita Rudner

American comedian

Whenever I date a guy, I think, ‘Is this the man I want my children to spend their weekends with?’

Rita Rudner

American comedian

I think men who have a pierced ear are better prepared for marriage. They’ve experienced pain and bought jewelry.

Rita Rudner

American comedian

Someday I want to be rich. Some people get so rich they lose all respect for humanity. That’s how rich I want to be.

Rita Rudner

American comedian

I was going to have cosmetic surgery until I noticed that the doctor’s office was full of portraits by Picasso.

Rita Rudner

American comedian

To attract men, I wear a perfume called “New Car Interior.”

Rita Rudner

American comedian

My mother buried three husbands – and two of them were only napping.

Rita Rudner

American comedian

In Hollywood a marriage is a success if it outlasts milk.

Rita Rudner

American comedian

When I eventually met Mr. Right I had no idea that his first name was Always.

Rita Rudner

American comedian

Some people think having large breasts makes a woman stupid. Actually, it’s quite the opposite: a woman having large breasts makes men stupid.

Rita Rudner

American comedian

My boyfriend and I broke up. He wanted to get married and I didn’t want him to.

Rita Rudner

American comedian

A man will go to war, fight and die for his country. But he won’t get a bikini wax.

Rita Rudner

American comedian

It wasn’t that no one asked me to the prom, it was that no one would tell me where it was.

Rita Rudner

American comedian

My husband and I are either going to buy a dog or have a child. We can’t decide whether to ruin our carpet or ruin our lives.

Rita Rudner

American comedian

I love to shop after a bad relationship. I don’t know. I buy a new outfit and it makes me feel better. It just does. Sometimes I see a really great outfit, I’ll break up with someone on purpose.

Rita Rudner

American comedian

I don’t plan to grow old gracefully. I plan to have face-lifts until my ears meet.

Rita Rudner

American comedian

My grandmother was a very tough woman. She buried three husbands and two of them were just napping.

Rita Rudner

American comedian

The word ‘aerobics’ came about when the gym instructors got together and said: If we’re going to charge $10 an hour, we can’t call it Jumping up and down.

Rita Rudner

American comedian

Marriages don’t last. When I meet a guy, the first question I ask myself is: is this the man I want my children to spend their weekends with?

Rita Rudner

American comedian

Men who consistently leave the toilet seat up secretly want women to get up to go the bathroom in the middle of the night and fall in.

Rita Rudner

American comedian

Most turkeys taste better the day after, my mother’s tasted better the day before.

Rita Rudner

American comedian

The time you spend grieving over a man should never exceed the amount of time you actually spent with him.

Rita Rudner

American comedian

Neurotics build castles in the air, psychotics live in them. My mother cleans them.

Rita Rudner

American comedian

We’ve begun to long for the pitter-patter of little feet – so we bought a dog. Well, it’s cheaper, and you get more feet.

Rita Rudner

American comedian