… if they [your children] write their names in the dust on the furniture, don’t let them put the year.
PHYLLIS DILLERThey just elected me Mis Phonograph Record of 1966. They discovered my measurements were 33 1/2, 45, 78!
More Phyllis Diller Quotes
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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.
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It’s true Fang and I fight, but we’ve never gone to bed mad. Of course, one year we were up for three months.
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By far the most common craving of pregnant women is not to be pregnant.
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Comedy is tragedy revisited.
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Best way to get rid of kitchen odors: Eat out.
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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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Every time I go near the stove, the dog howls.
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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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The last thing my kids ever did to earn money was lose their baby teeth.
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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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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.
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The only time I ever enjoyed ironing was the day I accidentally got gin in the steam iron.
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If you don’t have wrinkles, you haven’t laughed enough.
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Remarrying a husband you’ve divorced is like having your appendix put back in.
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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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