Never run with scissors or other pointy objects.
BILLY CONNOLLYThe great thing about Glasgow is that if there’s a nuclear attack it’ll look exactly the same afterwards.
More Billy Connolly Quotes
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I’m not going to throw away the hand of friendship to suit 100 Trotskyites in Glasgow.
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Don’t vote, it only encourages them.
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A well-balanced person has a drink in each hand.
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I loathe hecklers. I haven’t got a good syllable to say. When you come out of the club circuit and into the concert hall, they should be gone.
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Once you become successful, people know where you live, the type of house you live in, the kind of car you drive, the clothes you wear, and so it would be patronising to go and talk like a welder. Welding’s a mystery to me now. You can’t go back, your life changes every day.
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If Jesus was a Jew, how come he has a Mexican first name?
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A fart is just your arse applauding.
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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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Wisdom isn’t an old guy on top of a mountain in a loin cloth. It isn’t an answer. It’s a question.
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Revolution was written into the U.S. Constitution so it’s like they’re in a constant state of revolution. But then again, happiness is written into their constitution as well, which makes them pretty unique.
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Without arts programmes there’s only reality TV, and reality TV needs the arts to show it what reality is.
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I was brought up a Catholic, for that you get an A level in guilt.
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I think age is terribly overrated. You’re okay as long as you don’t grow up. By all means grow old, but don’t mature. Remain childlike, retain wonder, the ability to be flabbergasted by something.
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When people say “it’s always the last place you look”. Of course it is. Why would you keep looking after you’ve found it?
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If I had a hammer, there’d be no more folksingers.
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