I’m looking for a perfume to overpower men – I’m sick of karate.
PHYLLIS DILLERWe 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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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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Life is a do-it-yourself kit, so do it yourself. Work. Practice.
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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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My mother-in-law had a pain beneath her left breast. Turned out to be a trick knee.
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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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My husband is so cheap. On Christmas Eve, he fires one shot and tells the kids Santa committed suicide.
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The doctor looked my body over. I said: Is there any hope? He said: Yes. Reincarnation.
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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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Cleaning your house while your kids are still growing up is like shoveling the walk before it stops snowing.
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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’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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Whatever you may look like, marry a man your own age – as your beauty fades, so will his eyesight.
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My body’s in such bad shape I wear prescription underwear.
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I’m at an age when my back goes out more than I do.
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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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