The BBC did a survey of the top 50 things to do before we die. Not while we’re still alive, before we die.
BILL BAILEYIn Unity there is strength; We can move mountains when we’re united and enjoy life – Without unity we are victims. Stay united.
More Bill Bailey Quotes
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I spent my childhood scrambling round badgers and foxes and playing fantastic country kid games like knocking on people’s doors and running away. God that was a good game.
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Three blokes go into a pub. One of them is a little bit stupid, and the whole scene unfolds with a tedious inevitability.
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Television is where you earn regular money so you can plan a little bit but even then only when you have a regular gig. If you’re just doing the odd appearance, you don’t know if it will carry on.
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Contentment is knowing you’re right
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Three women walk into a pub and say, ‘Hooray, we’ve colonised a male-dominated joke format’
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I know that to be a true fact because I read it in Heat magazine
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Or, as I call it, a Cheesel, it’s a Weasel with a Cheese finish.
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I never really thought comedy was a career option, just something I did for fun. Suddenly I realised I was getting paid which was a bonus. I studied for a diploma with the London College of Music, and teaching was something I thought I might do but comedy intervened.
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I am a confectionery-based existentialist.
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I once punched a bloke in the face for saying ‘Hawk the Slayer’ was rubbish, when what I should have said ‘Dad, you’re wrong.’
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So many beautiful things, I cannot possess them all!
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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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I tried to like it. For me, it was like being smacked around the head by a piece of IKEA furniture: it hurts, but you’ve got to admire the workmanship.
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The so-called Samaritan squirrel, which takes pity on the spider, and then the spider jumps on it and injects the paralyzing venom, while the squirrel remains bafflingly philosophical about the whole thing.
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I think we’ve missed a trick there. We could develop wheat with the properties of Velcro… to catch whatever it is that’s forming those crop circles! But then the spaceship would have to have the corresponding Velcro, so it’s a bit of a long shot.
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Contentment is knowing you’re right. Happiness is knowing someone else is wrong.
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Work hard, save and live within your means.
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In Unity there is strength; We can move mountains when we’re united and enjoy life – Without unity we are victims. Stay united.
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Add a drop of lavender to milk, leave town with an orange, and pretend you’re laughing at it.
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I’m English and as such I crave disappointment. That’s why I buy Kinder Surprise.
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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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It’s not a beard, it’s an animal I’ve trained to sit very still.
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Relaxed Empiricism — I only believe something to be true if someone I know quite well tells me if happened.
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Toughest job I ever had: selling doors, door to door.
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Yes. Yes, when we live our life like 1950s detective films. I often go to my fridge, “Hullo, we’re out of milk. I say mother, where’s the milk?”
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Tonight’s show is about doubt. Or maybe it isn’t – haven’t made my mind up yet.
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