Contentment is knowing you’re right. Happiness is knowing someone else is wrong.
BILL BAILEYI once punched a bloke in the face for saying ‘Hawk the Slayer’ was rubbish, when what I should have said ‘Dad, you’re wrong.’
More Bill Bailey Quotes
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Without the beat in the background, Jazz basically sounds like an armadillo was let loose on the keyboard.
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How many amoebas does it take to screw in a light bulb? One, no two! No four! …no eight!
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I would never condone the burning of a Dan Brown novel, much though I loathe and detest his work. Well, I say work, you know, words, randomly arranged to form millions of dollars… I’m not bitter at all.
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If you have enough money to be comfortable it makes life a lot easier and that’s undeniable. But I think happiness is more elusive.
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Hitler was a vegetarian. Just goes to show, vegetarianism, not always a good thing. Can in some extreme cases lead to genocide.
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But our country’s equivalent of gritty reality is more like “Look out Sarge, he’s got a shooter!”
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Why do people want to swim with dolphins? The equivalent would be an Indonesian fellow coming over here, going up to a farmer and saying ‘Can I get in with the cows? I just fancy scuffling about with them.’
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Marijuana? It’s harmless really, unless you fashion it into a club and beat somebody over the head with it
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There we go, that’s it. I just hold my hand in this position for the next couple of hours.
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The way we live in the West we live like kings. People moan about this and that in Britain but we have running water, electricity, security and a rule of law and so many people in the world don’t have these.
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Nostalgia: How long’s that been around?
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Live comedy’s a very reckless, foolhardy profession. You’re only as good as your last gig so earnings fluctuate.
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At college, I felt frustrated thinking three years was a long time and I just wanted a job but afterwards I was in employment the whole time.
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Orchestras have often been used to conjure up the natural world: Swans, sharks, trout, but not, as far as I know, the often maligned jellyfish.
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I suppose you could be a member of a terrorist organization in a non-violent way, in the laundry or the catering department.
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