Housework can’t kill you, but why take a chance?
PHYLLIS DILLERI’m eighteen years behind in my ironing.
More Phyllis Diller Quotes
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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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I serve dinner in three phases: serve the food, clear the table, bury the dead.
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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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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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By far the most common craving of pregnant women is not to be pregnant.
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A terrible thing happened to me last night again—nothing.
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Most children threaten at times to run away from home. This is the only thing that keeps some parents going.
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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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My mother hated me. Once she took me to an orphanage and told me to mingle
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My own laugh is the real thing and I’ve had it all my life.
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It’s true Fang and I fight, but we’ve never gone to bed mad. Of course, one year we were up for three months.
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You know what keeps me humble? Mirrors!
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You’ve got to realize that when all goes well, and everything is beautiful, you have no comedy. It’s when somebody steps on the bride’s train, or belches during the ceremony that you’ve got comedy!
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