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.
BILL BAILEYDo not crush the flowers of wisdom with the hobnail boots of cynicism.
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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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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Do not crush the flowers of wisdom with the hobnail boots of cynicism.
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I’m quite lucky, because I’ve got a small, decorative concrete pig.
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So many beautiful things, I cannot possess them all!
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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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Three women walk into a pub and say, ‘Hooray, we’ve colonised a male-dominated joke format’
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American rock has a sort of self-pitying whine to it.
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A horse walks into a bar, and the barman says “Why the long face?”. The horse replies: “I’m deeply troubled by the anthropomorphic aspects of my existence and the extent to which I am now protected by law.”
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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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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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It’s not a beard, it’s an animal I’ve trained to sit very still.
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Or, as I call it, a Cheesel, it’s a Weasel with a Cheese finish.
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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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