My mother hated me. Once she took me to an orphanage and told me to mingle
PHYLLIS DILLERself-pity is better than none.
More Phyllis Diller Quotes
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Aim high, and you won’t shoot your foot off.
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The best contraceptive for old people is nudity.
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My mother-in-law had a pain beneath her left breast. Turned out to be a trick knee.
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Do not taste food while you’re cooking. You may lose your nerve to serve it.
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This woman goes into a gun shop and says, ‘I want to buy a gun for my husband.’ The clerk says, ‘Did he tell you what kind of gun?’ ‘No,’ she replied. ‘He doesn’t even know I’m going to shoot him.
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Next to gold and jewelry, health is the most important thing you can have.
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If you don’t have wrinkles, you haven’t laughed enough.
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Burt Reynolds once asked me out. I was in his room.
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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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I once wore a peekaboo blouse. People would peek and then they’d boo.
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My cooking is so bad my kids thought Thanksgiving was to commemorate Pearl Harbor.
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My photographs don’t do me justice – they just look like me.
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Housework can’t kill you, but why take a chance?
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I am descended from a very long line my mother once foolishly listened to.
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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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If my jeans could talk, they’d plead for mercy.
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His finest hour lasted a minute and a half.
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I’m at an age when my back goes out more than I do.
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Tranquilizers work only if you follow the advice on the bottle – keep away from children.
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My own laugh is the real thing and I’ve had it all my life.
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Old age is when the liver spots show through your gloves.
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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 asked the waiter, ‘Is this milk fresh?’ He said, ‘Lady, three hours ago it was grass.’
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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 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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Every time I go near the stove, the dog howls.
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