I want my children to have all the things I couldn’t afford. Then I want to move in with them.
PHYLLIS DILLERI was in a beauty contest once. I not only came in last, I was hit in the mouth by Miss Congeniality.
More Phyllis Diller Quotes
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We Californians are constantly accused of not having seasons, but we do. We have fire, flood, mud, and drought.
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My body’s in such bad shape I wear prescription underwear.
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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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Before you get married you should meet your fiance’s parents. It is not enough that you like his parole officer.
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I’m eighteen years behind in my ironing.
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It would seem that something which means poverty, disorder and violence every single day should be avoided entirely, but the desire to beget children is a natural urge.
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I asked my hairdresser what would look good on me. She says a Los Angeles Rams football helmet.
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A smile is a curve that sets everything straight.
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Doctors say it’s okay to have sex after a heart attack, provided you close the ambulance door.
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My mother hated me. Once she took me to an orphanage and told me to mingle
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Christmas is a time when everybody wants his past forgotten and his present remembered.
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Comedy is tragedy revisited.
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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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All mothers are working mothers.
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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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