Old age is when the liver spots show through your gloves.
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 doctor looked my body over. I said: Is there any hope? He said: Yes. Reincarnation.
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I was so wrinkled I could screw my hats on.
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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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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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Never go to bed mad. Stay up and fight.
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I admit, I have a tremendous sex drive. My boyfriend lives forty miles away.
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I’m the only woman who can walk in Central Park at night… and reduce the crime rate.
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My husband always felt that a marriage and career don’t mix. That’s why he’s never worked.
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A bachelor is a guy who never made the same mistake once.
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My cooking is so bad my kids thought Thanksgiving was to commemorate Pearl Harbor.
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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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Christmas is a time when everybody wants his past forgotten and his present remembered.
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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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The only time I ever enjoyed ironing was the day I accidentally got gin in the steam iron.
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I serve dinner in three phases: serve the food, clear the table, bury the dead.
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We Californians are constantly accused of not having seasons, but we do. We have fire, flood, mud, and drought.
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I have so many liver spots, I ought to come with a side of onions.
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Housework can’t kill you, but why take a chance?
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Tennis is like marrying for money. Love means nothing.
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I will never give up. I am in my 14th year of a 10-day beauty plan.
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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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They just elected me Mis Phonograph Record of 1966. They discovered my measurements were 33 1/2, 45, 78!
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I’m looking for a perfume to overpower men – I’m sick of karate.
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A smile is a curve that sets everything straight.
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Next to gold and jewelry, health is the most important thing you can have.
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Doctors say it’s okay to have sex after a heart attack, provided you close the ambulance door.
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