Wisdom isn’t an old guy on top of a mountain in a loin cloth. It isn’t an answer. It’s a question.
BILLY CONNOLLYThere’s nothing like it, but it’s not as good as you think it’s going to be. . . . I was disappointed because there are records of people finding things that have been there for years. I was hoping for a shirt button, or my club’s badge – but not a sausage.
More Billy Connolly Quotes
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My advice to you, if you want to lose a bit of weight: don’t eat anything that comes in a bucket. Buckets are the kitchen utensils of the farmyard.
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I just believe in the movie. I don’t care what the book was like. I don’t care what the previous film was like or other films were like. I care only about the script I’ve got.
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I’ve always liked it here. Part of me is Irish. My family comes from the west coast, so whenever I come to Ireland I get a wee tingling in my heart that I’m where I belong.
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I spent the whole time battering people I liked and singing with my arm round people I loathed.
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Don’t vote, it only encourages them.
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Fame is being asked to sign your autograph on the back of a cigarette packet.
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[To audience members who were arriving late] You haven’t missed a thing, I was just killing time ’til you got here.
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I’ve always wanted to go to Switzerland to see what the army does with those wee red knives.
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I don’t know why I should have to learn Algebra… I’m never likely to go there.
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I hate those earnest TV documentaries that are the world according to people with glasses who know better than you.
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I think of my life as a series of moments and I’ve found that the great moments often don’t have too much to them.
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Life is supposed to be fun. It’s not a job or occupation. We’re here only once and we should have a bit of a laugh.
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I don’t believe in angels, no. But I do have a wee parking angel. It’s on my dashboard and you wind it up. The wings flap and it’s supposed to give you a parking space. It’s worked so far.
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There are two seasons in Scotland: June and Winter.
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Don’t tell me how to do my job. I don’t come to your workplace and tell you how to sweep up.
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