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!
PHYLLIS DILLERMy cooking is so bad my kids thought Thanksgiving was to commemorate Pearl Harbor.
More Phyllis Diller Quotes
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All mothers are working mothers.
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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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It would seem that something which means poverty, disorder and violence every single day should be avoided entirely, but the desire to beget children is a natural urge.
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Housework can’t kill you, but why take a chance?
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My body’s in such bad shape I wear prescription underwear.
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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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Nothing was happening in the bedroom. I nicknamed our waterbed the Dead Sea.
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Do not taste food while you’re cooking. You may lose your nerve to serve it.
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The doctor looked my body over. I said: Is there any hope? He said: Yes. Reincarnation.
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Remarrying a husband you’ve divorced is like having your appendix put back in.
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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.
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This woman goes into a gun shop and says, ‘I want to buy a gun for my husband.’ The clerk says, ‘Did he tell you what kind of gun?’ ‘No,’ she replied. ‘He doesn’t even know I’m going to shoot him.
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Old age is when the liver spots show through your gloves.
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I will never give up. I am in my 14th year of a 10-day beauty plan.
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I spent seven hours in a beauty shop… and that was for the estimate.
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