Do not crush the flowers of wisdom with the hobnail boots of cynicism.
BILL BAILEYIt’s the augmented fourth, or diminished fifth, depending on your outlook on life.
More Bill Bailey Quotes
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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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I’m quite lucky, because I’ve got a small, decorative concrete pig.
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I’m a vegetarian, I’m not strict. I eat fish. And duck, but they’re nearly fish aren’t they.
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You remind me of the Siberian hunting spider, which adopts a highly convincing limp in three of its eight legs in order to attract its main prey.
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So many beautiful things, I cannot possess them all!
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It’s not a beard, it’s an animal I’ve trained to sit very still.
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Nostalgia: How long’s that been around?
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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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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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There’s more evil in the charts than an Al-Qaeda suggestion box.
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Stupid National Anthem… Look at this flag; Two bears fighting over a pineapple. What kind of message does that send to the world? “Come to Belarus, where wild animals will steal your fruit.”
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People say ‘Bill, are you an optimist?’ And I say, ‘I hope so.’
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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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Thank God for Darwin, eh?
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Or, as I call it, a Cheesel, it’s a Weasel with a Cheese finish.
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