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Next to gold and jewelry, health is the most important thing you can have.
Phyllis DillerPhyllis Diller The doctor looked my body over. I said: Is there any hope? He said: Yes. Reincarnation.
Phyllis DillerPhyllis Diller I will never give up. I am in my 14th year of a 10-day beauty plan.
Phyllis DillerPhyllis Diller Oh, that dog! Ever hear of a German Shepherd that bites its nails? Barks with a lisp? You say, “Attack!” And he has one. All he does is piddle. He’s nothing but a fur-covered kidney that barks.
Phyllis DillerPhyllis Diller 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.
Phyllis DillerPhyllis Diller You’ve got to realize that when all goes well, and everything is beautiful, you have no comedy. It’s when somebody steps on the bride’s train, or belches during the ceremony that you’ve got comedy!
Phyllis DillerPhyllis Diller Before you get married you should meet your fiance’s parents. It is not enough that you like his parole officer.
Phyllis DillerPhyllis Diller My photographs don’t do me justice – they just look like me.
Phyllis DillerPhyllis Diller If your husband wants to lick the beaters on the mixer, shut them off before you give them to him.
Phyllis DillerPhyllis Diller I was the world’s ugliest baby. When I was born, the doctor slapped everybody.
Phyllis DillerPhyllis Diller 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
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Even with broken wings, she dares to fly. And even with a broken heart, she dares to love.
Divya khandalDivya khandal And I refuse to apologize until the very end for the way that I feel – my feelings are valid too.
Carmen AmadosCarmen Amados Contemplate your own mortality daily, then see how much we must change.
Chris AllchinChris Allchin Poetry is the voice of the soul and the inspiration of the heart.
Teresa PeresTeresa Peres We parted sadly, like children in the street on a pleasant june afternoon.
Iestyn TudorIestyn Tudor And what shall I call you? Yours. In this life, the ones before, and all others thereafter.
Alexandra MichelleAlexandra Michelle If I could go back to a time I’d be with you. And I’d thank you again for almost being the healing to my heart.
Aimee C. HoveyAimee C. Hovey I was a living breathing nightmare and he was my favorite dream catcher.
Juwairiyyah OlgarJuwairiyyah Olgar
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The trouble is, as soon as you’ve chosen somebody it obscures anybody else you might have thought of.
Alan BennettAlan Bennett Have a go. Anybody can do it.
Alan ParkerAlan Parker The soft nerds are the ones who get violently ill whenever anybody mentions an integral sign.
Alan KayAlan Kay Don’t worry about what anybody else is going to do. The best way to predict the future is to invent it.
Alan KayAlan Kay Because anybody can find their fan base through the Internet.
Alan PalomoAlan Palomo If you listen to that song and knew anything about me, you’d say, “Oh yeah, he wrote that about his daughter,” but I try not to write them that they are so specific that they wouldn’t apply to anybody that has a child.
Alan JacksonAlan Jackson I do not believe that defending traditional marriage between one man and one woman excludes anybody or usurps anybody’s civil rights and denies anybody their civil rights.
Alan AutryAlan Autry My attitude is that if anybody of any age wants to read a book, let them, but I do think that no child would want to read Boneland.
Alan GarnerAlan Garner
