My body’s in such bad shape I wear prescription underwear.
PHYLLIS DILLERMy own laugh is the real thing and I’ve had it all my life.
More Phyllis Diller Quotes
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I am descended from a very long line my mother once foolishly listened to.
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My mother hated me. Once she took me to an orphanage and told me to mingle
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I never made `Who’s Who,’ but I’m featured in `What’s That?’
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My own laugh is the real thing and I’ve had it all my life.
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All mothers are working mothers.
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Aim high, and you won’t shoot your foot off.
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Do not taste food while you’re cooking. You may lose your nerve to serve it.
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I will never give up. I am in my 14th year of a 10-day beauty plan.
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I serve dinner in three phases: serve the food, clear the table, bury the dead.
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By far the most common craving of pregnant women is not to be pregnant.
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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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Old age is when the liver spots show through your gloves.
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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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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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A bachelor is a guy who never made the same mistake once.
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I asked my hairdresser what would look good on me. She says a Los Angeles Rams football helmet.
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self-pity is better than none.
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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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A terrible thing happened to me last night again—nothing.
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A smile is a curve that sets everything straight.
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I was the world’s ugliest baby. When I was born, the doctor slapped everybody.
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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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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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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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When I go to the beach, even the tide won’t come in.
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The constants all through the centuries will be the same; wine, women and song. Other than that, life will be very different technologically. In the year 3000 the universe will be expanding as it will forever, infinitely. We will probe outer space but never find life as evolutionized as ours
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