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My idea of exercise is a good brisk sit.
Phyllis DillerPhyllis Diller If my jeans could talk, they’d plead for mercy.
Phyllis DillerPhyllis Diller I like to serve chocolate cake, because it doesn’t show the dirt.
Phyllis DillerPhyllis Diller Life is a do-it-yourself kit, so do it yourself. Work. Practice.
Phyllis DillerPhyllis Diller 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.
Phyllis DillerPhyllis Diller My husband is so cheap. On Christmas Eve, he fires one shot and tells the kids Santa committed suicide.
Phyllis DillerPhyllis Diller Doctors say it’s okay to have sex after a heart attack, provided you close the ambulance door.
Phyllis DillerPhyllis Diller There’s such a buildup of crud in my oven, there’s only room to bake a single cupcake.
Phyllis DillerPhyllis Diller Whatever you may look like, marry a man your own age – as your beauty fades, so will his eyesight.
Phyllis DillerPhyllis Diller Always be nice to your children because they are the ones who will choose your rest home.
Phyllis DillerPhyllis Diller You know what keeps me humble? Mirrors!
Phyllis DillerPhyllis Diller I love to go to the doctor. Where else would a man look at me and say, ‘Take off your clothes’?
Phyllis DillerPhyllis Diller A smile is a curve that sets everything straight.
Phyllis DillerPhyllis Diller You know you’re old when your walker has an airbag.
Phyllis DillerPhyllis Diller Cleaning your house while your kids are still growing up is like shoveling the walk before it stops snowing.
Phyllis DillerPhyllis Diller I never made `Who’s Who,’ but I’m featured in `What’s That?’
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When you are with your friends, control your tongue.
Stuart PetersonStuart Peterson And you have fast become my weakness, even as you remain my source of strength.
Alma-May NoaAlma-May Noa No one else is on your path so why should their limits be?
Elezabeth SymondElezabeth Symond I heard many tongues in many languages saying that people cannot be Gods, and that’s a given. But what if people don’t know what was given to them?
Nikol MejdnNikol Mejdn Pride – it screams a lot louder than love sometimes.
L.T. PhoenixL.T. Phoenix Messed up people even see the beauty in all the shitty places.
Lara-LeanLara-Lean I loved you more than love was allowed.
Lang LeavLang Leav Don’t mistake your discovery for the absence of yourself.
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Erica JongErica Jong If somebody says no to you, or if you get cut, Michael Jordan was cut his first year, but he came back and he was the best ever. That is what you have to have.
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