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.
PHYLLIS DILLERI’m eighteen years behind in my ironing. There’s no use doing it now, it doesn’t fit anybody I know.
More Phyllis Diller Quotes
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I once wore a peekaboo blouse. People would peek and then they’d boo.
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I never made `Who’s Who,’ but I’m featured in `What’s That?’
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The real reason your pro tells you to keep your head down is so you can’t see him laughing at you.
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My idea of exercise is a good brisk sit.
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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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Tennis is like marrying for money. Love means nothing.
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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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Housework can’t kill you, but why take a chance?
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You know you’re old if they have discontinued your blood type.
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I was in a beauty contest once. I not only came in last, I was hit in the mouth by Miss Congeniality.
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I love to go to the doctor. Where else would a man look at me and say, ‘Take off your clothes’?
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Every time I go near the stove, the dog howls.
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I’m looking for a perfume to overpower men – I’m sick of karate.
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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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