Aim high, and you won’t shoot your foot off.
PHYLLIS DILLER
PHYLLIS DILLER
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If your house is really a mess and a stranger comes to the door greet him with, ‘Who could have done this? We have no enemies!’
Phyllis DillerPhyllis Diller To get a roaster clean, send something like baked apples in it to a neighbor. Neighbors always return pans spotless, and you won’t have to use a blow torch on it like you usually do.
Phyllis DillerPhyllis Diller Health – what my friends are always drinking to before they fall down.
Phyllis DillerPhyllis Diller I’m looking for a perfume to overpower men – I’m sick of karate.
Phyllis DillerPhyllis Diller Remarrying a husband you’ve divorced is like having your appendix put back in.
Phyllis DillerPhyllis Diller I’m at an age when my back goes out more than I do.
Phyllis DillerPhyllis Diller If you don’t have wrinkles, you haven’t laughed enough.
Phyllis DillerPhyllis Diller Tennis is like marrying for money. Love means nothing.
Phyllis DillerPhyllis Diller I want my children to have all the things I couldn’t afford. Then I want to move in with them.
Phyllis DillerPhyllis Diller It’s true Fang and I fight, but we’ve never gone to bed mad. Of course, one year we were up for three months.
Phyllis DillerPhyllis Diller Never go to bed mad. Stay up and fight.
Phyllis DillerPhyllis Diller I asked the waiter, ‘Is this milk fresh?’ He said, ‘Lady, three hours ago it was grass.’
Phyllis DillerPhyllis Diller You know you’re old when someone compliments you on your alligator shoes, and you’re barefoot.
Phyllis DillerPhyllis Diller What I don’t like about office Christmas parties is looking for a job the next day.
Phyllis DillerPhyllis Diller Best way to get rid of kitchen odors: Eat out.
Phyllis DillerPhyllis Diller I serve dinner in three phases: serve the food, clear the table, bury the dead.
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Danielle MontgomeryDanielle Montgomery Hidden in the ashes, of a fallen building lays a child’s family photo, with whom he could never unite in life.
Heba NazarHeba Nazar To love something, someone. You don’t need to own them.
Sonika MSonika M When you miss someone, you realize their worth and your faith.
Aradhna S BirenAradhna S Biren The bed was the canvas, we were the art.
Jonny OxJonny Ox Every little part of your soul was made to shine.
Ashley PrzywolskiAshley Przywolski When in truth, it is the transparency that kills you. The pain of seeing through to something you can never quite touch.
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We could almost say that being willing to be a fool is one of the first wisdoms. So acknowledging foolishness is always a very important and powerful experience. The phenomenal world can be perceived and seen properly if we see it from the perspective of being a fool.
Chogyam TrungpaChogyam Trungpa There is no such thing as bad whiskey. Some whiskeys just happen to be better than others. But a man shouldn’t fool with booze until he’s fifty; then he’s a damn fool if he doesn’t.
William FaulknerWilliam Faulkner There is, they say, no fool like an old fool.
William GoldingWilliam Golding I know now that what makes a fool is an inability to take even his own good advice.
William FaulknerWilliam Faulkner The field only reveals to man his own folly and despair, and victory is an illusion of philosophers and fools.
William FaulknerWilliam Faulkner The young writer would be a fool to follow a theory. Teach yourself by your own mistakes; people learn only by error.
William FaulknerWilliam Faulkner He who does not understand astrology is not a doctor but a fool.
HippocratesHippocrates No battle is ever won … victory is an illusion of philosophers and fools.
William FaulknerWilliam Faulkner