I 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!
PHYLLIS DILLERMy own laugh is the real thing and I’ve had it all my life.
More Phyllis Diller Quotes
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The doctor looked my body over. I said: Is there any hope? He said: Yes. Reincarnation.
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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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I asked the waiter, ‘Is this milk fresh?’ He said, ‘Lady, three hours ago it was grass.’
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You know you’re old if they have discontinued your blood type.
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I have so many liver spots, I ought to come with a side of onions.
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Nothing was happening in the bedroom. I nicknamed our waterbed the Dead Sea.
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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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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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Health – what my friends are always drinking to before they fall down.
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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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The only time I ever enjoyed ironing was the day I accidentally got gin in the steam iron.
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Christmas is a time when everybody wants his past forgotten and his present remembered.
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Old age is when the liver spots show through your gloves.
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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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They just elected me Mis Phonograph Record of 1966. They discovered my measurements were 33 1/2, 45, 78!
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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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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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I never made `Who’s Who,’ but I’m featured in `What’s That?’
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Cleaning your house while your kids are still growing up is like shoveling the walk before it stops snowing.
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I serve dinner in three phases: serve the food, clear the table, bury the dead.
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Next to gold and jewelry, health is the most important thing you can have.
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The best contraceptive for old people is nudity.
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I admit, I have a tremendous sex drive. My boyfriend lives forty miles away.
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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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I was the world’s ugliest baby. When I was born, the doctor slapped everybody.
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Tennis is like marrying for money. Love means nothing.
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