Cleaning your house while your kids are still growing up is like shoveling the walk before it stops snowing.
PHYLLIS DILLER… if they [your children] write their names in the dust on the furniture, don’t let them put the year.
More Phyllis Diller Quotes
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My cooking is so bad my kids thought Thanksgiving was to commemorate Pearl Harbor.
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Health – what my friends are always drinking to before they fall down.
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I have so many liver spots, I ought to come with a side of onions.
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self-pity is better than none.
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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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I was in a beauty contest once. I not only came in last, I was hit in the mouth by Miss Congeniality.
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When you play spin the bottle, if they don’t want to kiss you they have to give you a quarter. Well, hell, by the time I was twelve years old I owned my own home.
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I’ve tried Buddhism, Scientology, Numerology, Transcendental Meditation, Qabbala, t’ai chi, feng shui and Deepak Chopra but I find straight gin works best.
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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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Always be nice to your children because they are the ones who will choose your rest home.
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My mother hated me. Once she took me to an orphanage and told me to mingle
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I serve dinner in three phases: serve the food, clear the table, bury the dead.
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My idea of exercise is a good brisk sit.
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Maybe it’s true that life begins at fifty. But everything else starts to wear out, fall out, or spread out.
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I’m the only woman who can walk in Central Park at night… and reduce the crime rate.
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