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!’
PHYLLIS DILLERYou’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!
More Phyllis Diller Quotes
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I was so wrinkled I could screw my hats on.
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My cooking is so bad my kids thought Thanksgiving was to commemorate Pearl Harbor.
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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!
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Do not taste food while you’re cooking. You may lose your nerve to serve it.
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A smile is a curve that sets everything straight.
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I don’t know how you feel about old age… but in my case I didn’t even see it coming. It hit me from the rear.
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The last thing my kids ever did to earn money was lose their baby teeth.
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Never go to bed mad. Stay up and fight.
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I want my children to have all the things I couldn’t afford. Then I want to move in with them.
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I’m eighteen years behind in my ironing. There’s no use doing it now, it doesn’t fit anybody I know.
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Cleaning your house while your kids are still growing up is like shoveling the walk before it stops snowing.
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All mothers are working mothers.
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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.
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The only thing my husband and I have in common is that we were married on the same day.
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By far the most common craving of pregnant women is not to be pregnant.
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