I was in a beauty contest once. I not only came in last, I was hit in the mouth by Miss Congeniality.
PHYLLIS DILLER… if they [your children] write their names in the dust on the furniture, don’t let them put the year.
More Phyllis Diller Quotes
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My own laugh is the real thing and I’ve had it all my life.
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I’m eighteen years behind in my ironing.
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The last thing my kids ever did to earn money was lose their baby teeth.
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Christmas is a time when everybody wants his past forgotten and his present remembered.
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Old age is when the liver spots show through your gloves.
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To get a roaster clean, send something like baked apples in it to a neighbor. Neighbors always return pans spotless, and you won’t have to use a blow torch on it like you usually do.
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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.
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I admit, I have a tremendous sex drive. My boyfriend lives forty miles away.
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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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I’m at an age when my back goes out more than I do.
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Whatever you may look like, marry a man your own age – as your beauty fades, so will his eyesight.
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Life is a do-it-yourself kit, so do it yourself. Work. Practice.
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You know what keeps me humble? Mirrors!
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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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You know you’re old if they have discontinued your blood type.
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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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In most states you can get a driver’s license when you’re sixteen years old, which made a lot of sense to me when I was sixteen years old but now seems insane.
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Remember there is no way you can give the father custody of the children without getting a divorce.
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I’m looking for a perfume to overpower men – I’m sick of karate.
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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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What I don’t like about office Christmas parties is looking for a job the next day.
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Nothing was happening in the bedroom. I nicknamed our waterbed the Dead Sea.
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I never made `Who’s Who,’ but I’m featured in `What’s That?’
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A terrible thing happened to me last night again—nothing.
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I was the world’s ugliest baby. When I was born, the doctor slapped everybody.
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A smile is a curve that sets everything straight.
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