I’m at an age when my back goes out more than I do.
PHYLLIS DILLERI’m eighteen years behind in my ironing. There’s no use doing it now, it doesn’t fit anybody I know.
More Phyllis Diller Quotes
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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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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!’
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Every time I go near the stove, the dog howls.
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Tennis is like marrying for money. Love means nothing.
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Aim high, and you won’t shoot your foot off.
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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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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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Christmas is a time when everybody wants his past forgotten and his present remembered.
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I asked my hairdresser what would look good on me. She says a Los Angeles Rams football helmet.
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Never go to bed mad. Stay up and fight.
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When I go to the beach, even the tide won’t come in.
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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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Doctors say it’s okay to have sex after a heart attack, provided you close the ambulance door.
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Before you get married you should meet your fiance’s parents. It is not enough that you like his parole officer.
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My husband is so cheap. On Christmas Eve, he fires one shot and tells the kids Santa committed suicide.
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