I am descended from a very long line my mother once foolishly listened to.
PHYLLIS DILLERI 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!
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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You know you’re old when your walker has an airbag.
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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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Tennis is like marrying for money. Love means nothing.
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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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Any time three New Yorkers get into a cab without an argument, a bank has just been robbed.
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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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Doctors say it’s okay to have sex after a heart attack, provided you close the ambulance door.
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Nothing was happening in the bedroom. I nicknamed our waterbed the Dead Sea.
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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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My body’s in such bad shape I wear prescription underwear.
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Christmas is a time when everybody wants his past forgotten and his present remembered.
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A bachelor is a guy who never made the same mistake once.
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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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A passport picture is a photo of a man that he can laugh at without realizing that it looks exactly the way his friends see him.
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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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Health – what my friends are always drinking to before they fall down.
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Never go to bed mad. Stay up and fight.
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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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It would seem that something which means poverty, disorder and violence every single day should be avoided entirely, but the desire to beget children is a natural urge.
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The doctor looked my body over. I said: Is there any hope? He said: Yes. Reincarnation.
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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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Burt Reynolds once asked me out. I was in his room.
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Remarrying a husband you’ve divorced is like having your appendix put back in.
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His finest hour lasted a minute and a half.
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Tranquilizers work only if you follow the advice on the bottle – keep away from children.
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