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!
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Oldies but goodies…thanks. ☺
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I have always been in love with humor of Phyllis Diller!
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Phyllis was a special lady! I really loved her humor. I found myself reading this hearing her voice in my head. Good choice!
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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.
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She had some great jokes.
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Always enjoyed Phyllis Diller.
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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!
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I forgot how funny she was.
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The first one is my motto! 😉
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Cleaning your house while your kids are still growing up is like shovelling the walk before it stops snowing. Haha, story of my life!
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