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 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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Life is a do-it-yourself kit, so do it yourself. Work. Practice.
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Burt Reynolds once asked me out. I was in his room.
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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 real reason your pro tells you to keep your head down is so you can’t see him laughing at you.
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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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I’m at an age when my back goes out more than I do.
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The last thing my kids ever did to earn money was lose their baby teeth.
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His finest hour lasted a minute and a half.
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Nothing was happening in the bedroom. I nicknamed our waterbed the Dead Sea.
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Always be nice to your children because they are the ones who will choose your rest home.
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I will never give up. I am in my 14th year of a 10-day beauty plan.
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Never go to bed mad. Stay up and fight.
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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 in a beauty contest once. I not only came in last, I was hit in the mouth by Miss Congeniality.
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My cooking is so bad my kids thought Thanksgiving was to commemorate Pearl Harbor.
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