I’m the only woman who can walk in Central Park at night… and reduce the crime rate.
PHYLLIS DILLERYou’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!
More Phyllis Diller Quotes
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The last thing my kids ever did to earn money was lose their baby teeth.
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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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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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What I don’t like about office Christmas parties is looking for a job the next day.
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Housework can’t kill you, but why take a chance?
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By far the most common craving of pregnant women is not to be pregnant.
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If my jeans could talk, they’d plead for mercy.
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I’m at an age when my back goes out more than I do.
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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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Aim high, and you won’t shoot your foot off.
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Burt Reynolds once asked me out. I was in his room.
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If your husband wants to lick the beaters on the mixer, shut them off before you give them to him.
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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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Nothing was happening in the bedroom. I nicknamed our waterbed the Dead Sea.
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I want my children to have all the things I couldn’t afford. Then I want to move in with them.
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