Tennis is like marrying for money. Love means nothing.
PHYLLIS DILLERIf my jeans could talk, they’d plead for mercy.
More Phyllis Diller Quotes
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By far the most common craving of pregnant women is not to be pregnant.
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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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I once wore a peekaboo blouse. People would peek and then they’d boo.
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Christmas is a time when everybody wants his past forgotten and his present remembered.
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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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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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Every time I go near the stove, the dog howls.
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My own laugh is the real thing and I’ve had it all my life.
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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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The only time I ever enjoyed ironing was the day I accidentally got gin in the steam iron.
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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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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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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!
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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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A smile is a curve that sets everything straight.
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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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The only thing my husband and I have in common is that we were married on the same day.
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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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My photographs don’t do me justice – they just look like me.
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It would seem that something which means poverty, disorder and violence every single day should be avoided entirely, but the desire to beget children is a natural urge.
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… if they [your children] write their names in the dust on the furniture, don’t let them put the year.
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Health – what my friends are always drinking to before they fall down.
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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 serve dinner in three phases: serve the food, clear the table, bury the dead.
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Life is a do-it-yourself kit, so do it yourself. Work. Practice.
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When I go to the beach, even the tide won’t come in.
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