Phyllis Diller Quotes and Sayings

Phyllis Diller Quotes

A smile is a curve that sets everything straight.

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Housework can't kill you, but why take a chance?

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We spend the first twelve months of our children's lives teaching them to walk and talk and the next twelve telling them to sit down and shut up.

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The reason women don't play football is because 11 of them would never wear the same outfit in public.

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Best way to get rid of kitchen odors: Eat out.

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The only time I ever enjoyed ironing was the day I accidentally got gin in the steam iron.

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Cleaning your house while your kids are still growing up is like shoveling the walk before it stops snowing.

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My recipe for dealing with anger and frustration: set the kitchen timer for twenty minutes, cry, rant, and rave, and at the sound of the bell, simmer down and go about business as usual.

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A bachelor is a guy who never made the same mistake once.

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I want my children to have all the things I couldn't afford. Then I want to move in with them.

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Never go to bed mad. Stay up and fight.

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Aim high, and you won't shoot your foot off.

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You know you're old when someone compliments you on your alligator shoes, and you're barefoot.

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Always be nice to your children because they are the ones who will choose your rest home.

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Whatever you may look like, marry a man your own age - as your beauty fades, so will his eyesight.

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I admit, I have a tremendous sex drive. My boyfriend lives forty miles away.

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I asked the waiter, 'Is this milk fresh?' He said, 'Lady, three hours ago it was grass.'

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My cooking is so bad my kids thought Thanksgiving was to commemorate Pearl Harbor.

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You know you're old if your walker has an airbag.

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My photographs don't do me justice - they just look like me.

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Our dog died from licking our wedding picture.

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What I don't like about office Christmas parties is looking for a job the next day.

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There's so little money in my bank account, my scenic checks show a ghetto.

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It's a good thing that beauty is only skin deep, or I'd be rotten to the core.

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I'm eighteen years behind in my ironing.

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If it weren't for baseball, many kids wouldn't know what a millionaire looked like.

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I've been asked to say a couple of words about my husband, Fang. How about short and cheap?

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Most children threaten at times to run away from home. This is the only thing that keeps some parents going.

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My mother-in-law had a pain beneath her left breast. Turned out to be a trick knee.

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Burt Reynolds once asked me out. I was in his room.

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Any time three New Yorkers get into a cab without an argument, a bank has just been robbed.

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You know you're old if they have discontinued your blood type.

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Tranquilizers work only if you follow the advice on the bottle - keep away from children.

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His finest hour lasted a minute and a half.

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I wanted to become me, totally me. The more me, the better. I instinctively knew this and I was right.

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The real reason your pro tells you to keep your head down is so you can't see him laughing at you.

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A stand-up comic is judged by every line. Singers get applause at the end of their song no matter how bad they are.

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My father used to call me the laughing hyena.

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The last thing I'd learn, well into my career, was how to get on, how to say hello, how to get in with the audience.

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The reason the pro tells you to keep your head down is so you can't see him laughing.

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My own laugh is the real thing and I've had it all my life.

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I buried a lot of my ironing in the back yard.

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Old age is when the liver spots show through your gloves.

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