Phyllis Diller
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Analyzing humor is like dissecting a frog. Few people are interested and the frog dies of it.
Flops are a part of life's menu and I've never been a girl to miss out on any of the courses.
There is a real magic in enthusiasm. It spells the difference between mediocrity and accomplishment.
In life you can never be too kind or too fair ; everyone you meet is carrying a heavy load. When you go through your day expressing kindness and courtesy to all you meet, you leave behind a feeling of warmth and good cheer, and you help alleviate the burdens everyone is struggling with.
Love is a many splendered thing.
All love shifts and changes. I don't know if you can be wholeheartedly in love all the time.
The sweetest joy, the wildest woe is love.
All I want is a warm bed and a kind word and unlimited power.
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I can levitate birds, but nobody cares.
The hottest love has the coldest end.
All labor that uplifts humanity has dignity and importance and should be undertaken with painstaking excellence.
A short saying often contains much wisdom.
Where love reigns the impossible may be attained.
Most people are about as happy as they make up their mind to be.
If money helps a man to do good to others, it is of some value , but if not, it is simply a mass of evil, and the sooner it is got rid of, the better.
Words do two major things : They provide food for the mind and create light for understanding and awareness.
He who lives without discipline dies without honor.
Act or accept.
I just love when people say I cant do something because all my life people said I wasn't going to make it.
If there is anything that a man can do well, I say let him do it. Give him a chance.
The release of atom power has changed everything except our way of thinking, the solution to this problem lies in the heart of mankind. If only I had known, I should have become a watchmaker.
He who has learned how to obey will know how to command.
Imagination is more important than knowledge.
Walking is the best possible exercise. Habituate yourself to walk very far. quotes
The first requisite for success is to develop the ability to focus and apply your mental and physical energies to the problem at hand - without growing weary. Because such thinking is often difficult, there seems to be no limit to which some people will go to avoid the effort and labor that is associated with it.
He must have a truly romantic nature, for he weeps when there is nothing at all to weep about.
When I look back on all these worries, I remember the story of the old man who said on his deathbed that he had had a lot of trouble in his life, most of which had never happened. Winston Churchill When I want to read a novel, I write one.
Romance has been elegantly defined as the offspring of fiction and love.
Opportunities are usually disguised as hard work, so most people don't recognize them.
The love that lasts longest is the love that is never returned.
The calla lilies are in bloom again.
Would you like to come in ?
There are two kinds of failures. The man who will do nothing he is told, and the man who will do nothing else.
If you build it, he will come.
Do we really know anybody ? Who does not wear a face to hide another ?
When one door of happiness closes, another opens, but often we look so long at the closed door that we do not see the one that has been opened for us.
Trouble is only opportunity in work clothes.
If the going is real easy, beware, you may be headed down hill.
"Great works are performed not by strength but by perseverance."
Everything is okay in the end. If it's not okay, then it's not the end.
I love you, not only for what you are, but for what I am when I am with you.
If you can imagine it, you can achieve it. If you can dream it, you can become it.
A smile is the light in your window that tells others that there is a caring, sharing person inside.
We make a living by what we get, we make a life by what we give.
If a man empties his purse into his head, no man can take it away from him. An investment in knowledge always pays the best interest.
You talkin to me ?
Charity should begin at home, but should not stay there. Philip Brooks Children are the reward of life.
The only good luck many great men ever had was being born with the ability and determination to overcome bad luck.
Believe in yourself.
You must tolerate that which you can not change.
Let no one who loves be called unhappy Even love unreturned has its rainbow.
The most beautiful thing we can experience is the mysterious. It is the source of all true art and all science. He to whom this emotion is a stranger, who can no longer pause to wonder and stand rapt in awe, is as good as dead, his eyes are closed.
Work spares us from three evils boredom, vice, and need.
Absence diminishes small loves and increases great ones, as the wind blows out the candle and blows up the bonfire.
If you love somebody, let them go, for if they return, they were always yours. And if they don't, they never were.
Only in his own way and not in any other can the one who strives perfect himself. He who lays hold of the rung of his companion and lets go of his own rung, through him neither the one nor the other will be realized.
You affect your subconscious mind by verbal repetition.
Most ball games are lost, not won.
Start by doing what is necessary, then what is possible, and suddenly you are doing the impossible.
Happiness is not a destination. It is a method of life.
Anyone can do something when they want to do it. Really successful people do things when they don't want to do it.
Don't ask yourself what the world needs , ask yourself what makes you come alive. And then go and do that. Because what the world needs is people who have come alive.
Procrastination is the fear of success. People procrastinate because they are afraid of the success that they know will result if they move ahead now. Because success is heavy, carries a responsibility with it, it is much easier to procrastinate and live on the 'someday I'll' philosophy.
I have come here to chew bubble gum and kick ass, and I'm all out of bubble gum.
The art of being wise is the art of knowing what to overlook.
Hard work often leads to success. No work seldom does.
Hope is like a bird that senses the dawn and carefully starts to sing while it is still dark.
All progress occurs because people dare to be different
Are you fit company for the person you wish to become ?
Without courage, all others virtues lose their meaning.
An individual has not started living until he can rise above the narrow confines of his individualistic concerns to the broader concerns of all humanity.
I'll have what she's having.
The higher your energy level, the more efficient your body. The more efficient your body, the better you feel and the more you will use your talent to produce outstanding results.
The three things that are most essential to achievement are common sense, hard work and stick-to-it-iv-ness.
Winning isn't everything , it's the only thing.
If you think you are beaten, you are. If you think you dare not, you don't. If you'd like to win, but think you can't it's almost a cinch you won't. Life's battles don't always go to the stronger or faster man, but sooner or later the man who wins is the one who thinks he can.
Life is a great big canvas, and you should throw all the paint you can on it.
Fantasy love is much better than reality love. Never doing it is very exciting. The most exciting attractions are between two opposites that never meet.
The harder I work, the luckier I get.
The heights by great men reached and kept were not obtained by sudden flight. But they, while their companions slept, were toiling upward in the night.
The most wasted of all days is one without laughter.
A compliment is like a kiss through a veil.
Remember that happiness is a way of travel, not a destination.
Of all the gin joints in all the towns in all the world, she walks into mine.
The difficulties and distresses to which we have been exposed during the war must now be forgotten. We must endeavor to let our ways be the way of pleasantness and all our paths peace.
I do not think there is any other quality so essential to success of any kind as the quality of perseverance. It overcomes almost everything, even nature.
Come forth into the light of things , Let nature be your Teacher.
Marriage is a door which looks out upon a beautiful view. As that door is opened and the horizon unfolds before you, know that nothing is sweeter than the warmth of one hand within another.
Take time to deliberate, but when the time for action has arrived, stop thinking and go in.
Come here, Norman. Hurry up. The loons ! The loons ! They're welcoming us back.
Unless you choose to do great things with it, it makes no difference how much you are rewarded or how much you have.
Beware when the great God lets loose a thinker on this planet.
No one can make you feel inferior without your consent.
Love, a temporary insanity, curable by marriage.
You become what you think about.
Become a possibilitarian. No matter how dark things seem to be or actually are, raise your sights and see possibilities -- always see them, for they're always there.
No man is wise enough by himself.
Power is not really good or bad , it is neutral. Power itself is not negative or positive, although our feelings about it may be. Power is the potential to influence others for good or evil, to be a blessing or a scourge. Like nuclear energy, it can provide the electricity to light a city, or it can fuel the bomb that destroys it.
An error gracefully acknowledged is a victory won.