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Comedy is tragedy revisited.
Phyllis DillerPhyllis Diller Christmas is a time when everybody wants his past forgotten and his present remembered.
Phyllis DillerPhyllis Diller Tranquilizers work only if you follow the advice on the bottle – keep away from children.
Phyllis DillerPhyllis Diller The best contraceptive for old people is nudity.
Phyllis DillerPhyllis Diller The only thing my husband and I have in common is that we were married on the same day.
Phyllis DillerPhyllis Diller Most children threaten at times to run away from home. This is the only thing that keeps some parents going.
Phyllis DillerPhyllis Diller You know you’re old if they have discontinued your blood type.
Phyllis DillerPhyllis Diller The reason women don’t play football is because 11 of them would never wear the same outfit in public.
Phyllis DillerPhyllis Diller 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.
Phyllis DillerPhyllis Diller My own laugh is the real thing and I’ve had it all my life.
Phyllis DillerPhyllis Diller Remember there is no way you can give the father custody of the children without getting a divorce.
Phyllis DillerPhyllis Diller I spent seven hours in a beauty shop… and that was for the estimate.
Phyllis DillerPhyllis Diller I was so wrinkled I could screw my hats on.
Phyllis DillerPhyllis Diller I always wondered how I could tell when the right one came along – but it was easy. He was the only one that came along.
Phyllis DillerPhyllis Diller self-pity is better than none.
Phyllis DillerPhyllis Diller My mother hated me. Once she took me to an orphanage and told me to mingle
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I am the universe, and every possibility belongs to me.
Courtney PeppernellCourtney Peppernell The only thing that changed about you is me.
Elaine HaysElaine Hays He is my heaven and my hell. Serving passion and poison with the same spoon, and i am a sucker for a taste.
Laura Natoli-KearneyLaura Natoli-Kearney My mistakes tell me I am quite human, but my brief flashes of brilliance tell me I am divine, too.
Rachel WolchinRachel Wolchin She now finds solace in vanilla-scented daydreams, as her soul sings away in a musical symphony of humid breaths and well-favored smiles.
Megan LaoMegan Lao Some things won’t change-some things can’t.
Julia Kellogg HenryJulia Kellogg Henry My blood is fifty percent alcohol the other half was you.
Chris AllchinChris Allchin Darling, you don’t fear love, you fear of loving wrong.
C.R. ElliottC.R. Elliott
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More on humble
Don’t be cocky. Don’t be flashy. There’s always someone better than you.
Tony HsiehTony Hsieh Holiness is a disposition of the heart that makes us humble and little in the arms of God, aware of our weakness, and confident – in the most audacious way – in His Fatherly goodness.
Therese of LisieuxTherese of Lisieux God exalts the man who humbles himself.
Miguel de CervantesMiguel de Cervantes It’s humbling to think that all animals, including human beings, are parasites of the plant world.
Isaac AsimovIsaac Asimov Many a humble soul will be amazed to find that the seed it sowed in weakness, in the dust of daily life, has blossomed into immortal flowers under the eye of the Lord.
Harriet Beecher StoweHarriet Beecher Stowe Humble because of knowledge; mighty by sacrifice.
Rudyard KiplingRudyard Kipling The humblest tasks get beautified if loving hands do them.
Louisa May AlcottLouisa May Alcott Any work that aspires, however humbly, to the condition of art should carry its justification in every line.
Joseph ConradJoseph Conrad
