Never go to bed mad. Stay up and fight.

—Phyllis Diller

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About Phyllis Diller

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Phyllis Ada Diller (née Driver; July 17, 1917 – August 20, 2012) was an American stand-up comedian, actress, author, musician and visual artist, noted for her eccentric stage persona, characterized by her self-deprecating humor, wild hair and clothes, and exaggerated, cackling laugh.

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The reason women don't play football is because eleven of them would never wear the same outfit in public.

—Phyllis Diller

Burt Reynolds once asked me out. I was in his room.

—Phyllis Diller

We spend the first twelve months of our children's lives teaching them to walk and talk and the next twelve years telling them to sit down and shut up.

—Phyllis Diller

Always be nice to your children because they are the ones who will choose your rest home.

—Phyllis Diller

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A smile is a curve that sets everything straight.

—Phyllis Diller

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In a quarrel, each side is right.

—Yiddish folk saying

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My conscience aches, but it's going to lose the fight.

—Allanah Myles

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There are plenty of good reasons for fighting . . . but no good reason ever to hate without reservation, to imagine that God Almighty Himself hates with you, too. Where's evil? It's that large part of every man that wants to hate without limit, that wants to hate with God on its side.

—Kurt Vonnegut

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The days are too short even for love; how can there ever be time for quarreling?

—Margaret Gatty

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All wars are wars among thieves who are too cowardly to fight and who therefore induce the young manhood of the whole world to do the fighting for them.

—Emma Goldman

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