I want my children to have all the things I couldn’t afford. Then I want to move in with them.
PHYLLIS DILLERself-pity is better than none.
More Phyllis Diller Quotes
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My husband always felt that a marriage and career don’t mix. That’s why he’s never worked.
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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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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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Tennis is like marrying for money. Love means nothing.
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I don’t know how you feel about old age… but in my case I didn’t even see it coming. It hit me from the rear.
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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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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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… if they [your children] write their names in the dust on the furniture, don’t let them put the year.
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self-pity is better than none.
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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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Next to gold and jewelry, health is the most important thing you can have.
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When I go to the beach, even the tide won’t come in.
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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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Nothing was happening in the bedroom. I nicknamed our waterbed the Dead Sea.
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All mothers are working mothers.
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