Always be nice to your children because they are the ones who will choose your rest home.
PHYLLIS DILLERAny time three New Yorkers get into a cab without an argument, a bank has just been robbed.
More Phyllis Diller Quotes
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Comedy is tragedy revisited.
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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 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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Whatever you may look like, marry a man your own age – as your beauty fades, so will his eyesight.
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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’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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The doctor looked my body over. I said: Is there any hope? He said: Yes. Reincarnation.
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I spent seven hours in a beauty shop… and that was for the estimate.
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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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self-pity is better than none.
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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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I was the world’s ugliest baby. I have photos of my folks leaving the hospital with sacks over their heads… I asked my mother how to turn off the electric fan. She said ‘Grab the blade!
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My idea of exercise is a good brisk sit.
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I was the world’s ugliest baby. When I was born, the doctor slapped everybody.
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The reason women don’t play football is because 11 of them would never wear the same outfit in public.
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I was so wrinkled I could screw my hats on.
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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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Burt Reynolds once asked me out. I was in his room.
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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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Cleaning your house while your kids are still growing up is like shoveling the walk before it stops snowing.
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My mother hated me. Once she took me to an orphanage and told me to mingle
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You know you’re old when your walker has an airbag.
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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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I never made `Who’s Who,’ but I’m featured in `What’s That?’
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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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I’m at an age when my back goes out more than I do.
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