Housework can’t kill you, but why take a chance?
PHYLLIS DILLERMy mother-in-law had a pain beneath her left breast. Turned out to be a trick knee.
More Phyllis Diller Quotes
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I like to serve chocolate cake, because it doesn’t show the dirt.
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Most children threaten at times to run away from home. This is the only thing that keeps some parents going.
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You know you’re old when your walker has an airbag.
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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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A smile is a curve that sets everything straight.
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I have so many liver spots, I ought to come with a side of onions.
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My husband always felt that a marriage and career don’t mix. That’s why he’s never worked.
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self-pity is better than none.
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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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Aim high, and you won’t shoot your foot off.
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My mother-in-law had a pain beneath her left breast. Turned out to be a trick knee.
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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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I serve dinner in three phases: serve the food, clear the table, bury the dead.
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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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Old age is when the liver spots show through your gloves.
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Never go to bed mad. Stay up and fight.
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Every time I go near the stove, the dog howls.
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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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You know what keeps me humble? Mirrors!
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Nothing was happening in the bedroom. I nicknamed our waterbed the Dead Sea.
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My own laugh is the real thing and I’ve had it all my life.
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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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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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I’ve tried Buddhism, Scientology, Numerology, Transcendental Meditation, Qabbala, t’ai chi, feng shui and Deepak Chopra but I find straight gin works best.
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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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