Do not taste food while you’re cooking. You may lose your nerve to serve it.
PHYLLIS DILLERIn 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.
More Phyllis Diller Quotes
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My husband is so cheap. On Christmas Eve, he fires one shot and tells the kids Santa committed suicide.
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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 my jeans could talk, they’d plead for mercy.
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My body’s in such bad shape I wear prescription underwear.
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The best contraceptive for old people is nudity.
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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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I asked the waiter, ‘Is this milk fresh?’ He said, ‘Lady, three hours ago it was grass.’
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I’m eighteen years behind in my ironing. There’s no use doing it now, it doesn’t fit anybody I know.
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self-pity is better than none.
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When I go to the beach, even the tide won’t come in.
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Always be nice to your children because they are the ones who will choose your rest home.
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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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A bachelor is a guy who never made the same mistake once.
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My photographs don’t do me justice – they just look like me.
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