You know you’re old when someone compliments you on your alligator shoes, and you’re barefoot.
PHYLLIS DILLERI am descended from a very long line my mother once foolishly listened to.
More Phyllis Diller Quotes
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Nothing was happening in the bedroom. I nicknamed our waterbed the Dead Sea.
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My body’s in such bad shape I wear prescription underwear.
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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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I was the world’s ugliest baby. I have photos of my folks leaving the hospital with sacks over their heads… I asked my mother how to turn off the electric fan. She said ‘Grab the blade!
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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 never made `Who’s Who,’ but I’m featured in `What’s That?’
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Every time I go near the stove, the dog howls.
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My mother hated me. Once she took me to an orphanage and told me to mingle
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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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When I go to the beach, even the tide won’t come in.
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They just elected me Mis Phonograph Record of 1966. They discovered my measurements were 33 1/2, 45, 78!
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Next to gold and jewelry, health is the most important thing you can have.
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Life is a do-it-yourself kit, so do it yourself. Work. Practice.
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A passport picture is a photo of a man that he can laugh at without realizing that it looks exactly the way his friends see him.
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My husband always felt that a marriage and career don’t mix. That’s why he’s never worked.
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