Phyllis Diller Quotes

Take this marriage thing seriously - it has to last all the way to the divorce.

My life is PG-13 sometimes, and I really want Josh Grogan to propose to me, and he just won't do it.

I don't see any reason for marriage when there is divorce.

My parents said marrying was an optimistic thing to do in pessimistic times.

I do believe in love; it's wonderful - especially love third time around, it's even more precious; it's kind of amazing.

I really believe in hoping for the best and preparing for the worst.

One of my favorite things in the world is to be seeing two people that are really old, still holding hands, still kissing.

I think it is very natural to want to be partnered, but you never know. you read about mature love affairs in the press, and it gives you hope. You think: 'Well, it's not impossible.'

Surely, marriage is throwing anchor and saying, 'This is where I'm staying. I've made my choice, and this is all I want because I've been on the up and down escalator, through the revolving door, and I want to stand still.' That's what I expected.

A family is forever. A career might finish tomorrow.

I like the fact that my husband and I have been together for a long time and have a warm and colourful history together.

People always say 'I will fight for a world title in a year' but that sort of thing is not down to me. I feel my job is to be ready when it comes, I just need to know it is coming.

That we arrived at fifty years together is due as much to luck as to love, and a talent for knowing, when we stumble, where to fall, and how to get up again.

I wasn’t sure anymore what made a good marriage. There had to be love, of course, but there were so many different kinds of love. And clearly, some love was more enduring than others.

if a woman doubts as to whether she should accept a man or not, she certainly ought to refuse him. If she can hesitate as to 'Yes,' she ought to say 'No' directly. It is not a state to be safely entered into with doubtful feelings, with half a heart.

[O]ur honeymoon will shine our life long: its beams will only fade over your grave or mine.

You seem to be absolutely unaware of the phenomenon of marriage - which is destructive to both man and woman. Love is creative, marriage is destructive. But love is not dependable: this moment it may be there and the next moment gone. And man wants permanent things; he is obsessed with permanent things. He wants security, safety, he wants to cling. Hence love is not reliable, so he created marriage.

But do we know how to make love stay?' I can't even think about it. The best I can do is play it day by day.

Marriage is memory, marriage is time. Marriage is not only time: it is also, parodoxically, the denial of time.

The first thing is love: love deeply. If you have been with a person for a few years, in deep love, and you have experienced all the joys and all the miseries, and still you decide to be with the person, then marriage is okay. Because marriage is only a legal arrangement, it cannot make anything more beautiful than it is. It can only make it ugly, it cannot beautify it. Once it is settled legally, once you start taking each other for granted, things will start going down rather than rising high.

When I get older losing my hair many years from now. Will you still be sending me a Valentine. Birthday greetings, bottle of wine? If I'd been out till quarter to three would you lock the door? Will you still need me, will you still feed me, When I'm sixty-four?

The best romance is inside marriage; the finest love stories come after the wedding, not before.

You cannot expect victory and plan for defeat.

When you plan and prepare carefully, you can legitimately expect to have success in your efforts. An optimistic, positive mind is far more likely to come up with creative solutions than a mind that dwells on setbacks and difficulties. Bottom line: expect success and you can achieve it!

I didn't want to tell the story of what makes two people come together, although that's a theme of great power and universality. I wanted to find out what it takes for two people to stay together for fifty years -- or more. I wanted to tell not the story of courtship, but the story of marriage.