I serve dinner in three phases: serve the food, clear the table, bury the dead.
PHYLLIS DILLERTo 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.
More Phyllis Diller Quotes
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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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Health – what my friends are always drinking to before they fall down.
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I have so many liver spots, I ought to come with a side of onions.
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Burt Reynolds once asked me out. I was in his room.
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His finest hour lasted a minute and a half.
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Whatever you may look like, marry a man your own age – as your beauty fades, so will his eyesight.
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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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My body’s in such bad shape I wear prescription underwear.
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I’m the only woman who can walk in Central Park at night… and reduce the crime rate.
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Comedy is tragedy revisited.
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I love to go to the doctor. Where else would a man look at me and say, ‘Take off your clothes’?
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The constants all through the centuries will be the same; wine, women and song. Other than that, life will be very different technologically. In the year 3000 the universe will be expanding as it will forever, infinitely. We will probe outer space but never find life as evolutionized as ours
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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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My cooking is so bad my kids thought Thanksgiving was to commemorate Pearl Harbor.
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If my jeans could talk, they’d plead for mercy.
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