Always be nice to your children because they are the ones who will choose your rest home.
PHYLLIS DILLERDo not taste food while you’re cooking. You may lose your nerve to serve it.
More Phyllis Diller Quotes
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A bachelor is a guy who never made the same mistake once.
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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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Most children threaten at times to run away from home. This is the only thing that keeps some parents going.
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I like to serve chocolate cake, because it doesn’t show the dirt.
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You know you’re old when your walker has an airbag.
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You know what keeps me humble? Mirrors!
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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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My idea of exercise is a good brisk sit.
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If your husband wants to lick the beaters on the mixer, shut them off before you give them to him.
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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!
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I’m eighteen years behind in my ironing.
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Comedy is tragedy revisited.
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The best contraceptive for old people is nudity.
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All mothers are working mothers.
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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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My photographs don’t do me justice – they just look like me.
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You know you’re old when someone compliments you on your alligator shoes, and you’re barefoot.
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My own laugh is the real thing and I’ve had it all my life.
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Any time three New Yorkers get into a cab without an argument, a bank has just been robbed.
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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 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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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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Tennis is like marrying for money. Love means nothing.
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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.
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I love to go to the doctor. Where else would a man look at me and say, ‘Take off your clothes’?
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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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