I want my children to have all the things I couldn’t afford. Then I want to move in with them.
PHYLLIS DILLERI will never give up. I am in my 14th year of a 10-day beauty plan.
More Phyllis Diller Quotes
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When I go to the beach, even the tide won’t come in.
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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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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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The best contraceptive for old people is nudity.
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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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I admit, I have a tremendous sex drive. My boyfriend lives forty miles away.
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Tennis is like marrying for money. Love means nothing.
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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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All mothers are working mothers.
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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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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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I don’t know how you feel about old age… but in my case I didn’t even see it coming. It hit me from the rear.
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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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The reason women don’t play football is because 11 of them would never wear the same outfit in public.
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Every time I go near the stove, the dog howls.
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My mother-in-law had a pain beneath her left breast. Turned out to be a trick knee.
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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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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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The only thing my husband and I have in common is that we were married on the same day.
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I like to serve chocolate cake, because it doesn’t show the dirt.
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His finest hour lasted a minute and a half.
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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 spent seven hours in a beauty shop… and that was for the estimate.
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A smile is a curve that sets everything straight.
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I am descended from a very long line my mother once foolishly listened to.
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