We spend the first twelve months of our children’s lives teaching them to walk and talk and the next twelve telling them to sit down and shut up.
PHYLLIS DILLERThe 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
More Phyllis Diller Quotes
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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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… if they [your children] write their names in the dust on the furniture, don’t let them put the year.
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They just elected me Mis Phonograph Record of 1966. They discovered my measurements were 33 1/2, 45, 78!
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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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Health – what my friends are always drinking to before they fall down.
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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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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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If you don’t have wrinkles, you haven’t laughed enough.
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Christmas is a time when everybody wants his past forgotten and his present remembered.
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There’s such a buildup of crud in my oven, there’s only room to bake a single cupcake.
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The doctor looked my body over. I said: Is there any hope? He said: Yes. Reincarnation.
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I am descended from a very long line my mother once foolishly listened to.
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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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The only time I ever enjoyed ironing was the day I accidentally got gin in the steam iron.
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His finest hour lasted a minute and a half.
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