I have outlived most of my more athletic contemporaries who jogged, golfed and squashed themselves into coronary occlusion.
BARRY HUMPHRIESThe past is so reliable, so delightful and the best place to live.
More Barry Humphries Quotes
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Never be afraid to laugh at yourself, after all, you could be missing out on the joke of the century.
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Australia is an outdoor country. People only go inside to use the toilet. And that’s only a recent development.
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There is no more terrible fate for a comedian than to be taken seriously.
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My mother used to say that there are no strangers, only friends you haven’t met yet. She’s now in a maximum security twilight home in Australia
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If you can’t laugh at yourself, you may be missing the colossal joke of the century.
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I love Australia – I think.
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I’ve decided the secret of parenting is benevolent neglect.I put my family last. Because if you don’t, if you put them first, they never thank you. You’ll never get a word of thanks from them.
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To live in Australia permanently is rather like going to a party and dancing all night with one’s mother.
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I’m an immensely shy and vulnerable woman. My husband has never seen me naked. Nor has he expressed the least desire to do so.
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New Zealand is a country of thirty thousand million sheep, three million of whom think they are human.
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The past is so reliable, so delightful and the best place to live.
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Friendship is tested in the thick years of success rather than in the thin years of struggle.
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If you have to explain satire to someone, you might as well give up.
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I like people who are slightly unhygienic. A little grubbiness isn’t so bad. BO chic it should be called.
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Sex is the most beautiful thing that can take place between a happily married man and his secretary.
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