“If God wanted us to bend over he would put diamonds on the floor.”

—  Joan Rivers

„I'm Jewish. I don't work out.."


As quoted in Dick Enberg's Humorous Quotes for All Occasions (2000), p. 101
Variant: I'm Jewish. I don't work out. If God had wanted us to bend over, he would have put diamonds on the floor.

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