Quotes from the great Phyllis Diller
- Housework can’t kill you, but why take a chance?
- Cleaning your house while your kids are still growing up is like shovelling the walk before it stops snowing.
- A smile is a curve that sets everything straight.
- The reason women don’t play football is because 11 of them would never wear the same outfit in public.
- Best way to get rid of kitchen odours: eat out.
- A bachelor is a guy who never made the same mistake once.
- Never go to bed mad. Stay up and fight. [Everyone's heard that before but I thought you'd like to know the source]
- I want my children to have all the things I couldn’t afford. Then I want to move in with them.
- Most children threaten at times to run away from home. This is the only thing that keeps some parents going.
- Always be nice to your children because they are the ones who will choose your rest home.
- Aim high, and you won’t shoot your foot off.
- Any time three New Yorkers get into a cab without an argument, a bank has just been robbed.
- We spend the first twelve months of our children’s lives teaching them to walk and talk and the next twelve telling them to sit down and shut up.
- Burt Reynolds once asked me out. I was in his room.
Thanks to Terry for letting me lift this from her blog. More tomorrow.
















Ha – I remember her!
Oldies but goodies…thanks. ☺
I have always been in love with humor of Phyllis Diller!
Phyllis was a special lady! I really loved her humor. I found myself reading this hearing her voice in my head. Good choice!
Always be nice to your children because they are the ones who will choose your rest home. – have been one of my favorite quotes for years … nice to have a face to go with it.
Some brilliant quotes here.
She had some great jokes.
Always enjoyed Phyllis Diller.
I love her. I’m from San Francisco, where she started out, and used to hear her on the radio before she became a big star. That was in the 50′s. Oh my, I am old!
I forgot how funny she was.
The first one is my motto!
Cleaning your house while your kids are still growing up is like shovelling the walk before it stops snowing. Haha, story of my life!