I asked the waiter, ‘Is this milk fresh?’ He said, ‘Lady, three hours ago it was grass.’
PHYLLIS DILLERI always wondered how I could tell when the right one came along – but it was easy. He was the only one that came along.
More Phyllis Diller Quotes
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I admit, I have a tremendous sex drive. My boyfriend lives forty miles away.
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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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You know you’re old when someone compliments you on your alligator shoes, and you’re barefoot.
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I was so wrinkled I could screw my hats on.
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What I don’t like about office Christmas parties is looking for a job the next day.
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Do not taste food while you’re cooking. You may lose your nerve to serve it.
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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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Any time three New Yorkers get into a cab without an argument, a bank has just been robbed.
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My own laugh is the real thing and I’ve had it all my life.
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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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The best contraceptive for old people is nudity.
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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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By far the most common craving of pregnant women is not to be pregnant.
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Before you get married you should meet your fiance’s parents. It is not enough that you like his parole officer.
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Nothing was happening in the bedroom. I nicknamed our waterbed the Dead Sea.
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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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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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I serve dinner in three phases: serve the food, clear the table, bury the dead.
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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 Californians are constantly accused of not having seasons, but we do. We have fire, flood, mud, and drought.
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My mother hated me. Once she took me to an orphanage and told me to mingle
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When I go to the beach, even the tide won’t come in.
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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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There’s such a buildup of crud in my oven, there’s only room to bake a single cupcake.
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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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