Wisdom isn’t an old guy on top of a mountain in a loin cloth. It isn’t an answer. It’s a question.
BILLY CONNOLLYScotland has the only football team in the world that does a lap of disgrace.
More Billy Connolly Quotes
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For me, it’s about the desire to win. My audience becomes a crowd of wild animals and I have to be the lion-tamer or be eaten.
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Once you become successful, people know where you live, the type of house you live in, the kind of car you drive, the clothes you wear, and so it would be patronising to go and talk like a welder. Welding’s a mystery to me now. You can’t go back, your life changes every day.
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I can’t believe in Christianity, but I think Jesus was a wonderful teacher.
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Scotland has the only football team in the world that does a lap of disgrace.
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Who discovered we could get milk from cows, and what did he think he was doing at the time?
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Save the Trees? Trees are the main cause of Forest Fires!
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I’d always been scared of people with tertiary education and high intellects in case they found me wanting. I thought they viewed me as just a welder who knew a few jokes.
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There’s a fine line you have to tread because you don’t know who is out there in the auditorium. A lot of people are too easily offended.
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If you give people a chance, they shine.
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When I was 12, we went from Glasgow to Aberdeen on a school trip. It was called fresh air fortnight.
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When you are waiting for the bus and someone asks, “Has the bus come yet?”. If the bus came would I be standing here?
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I think age is terribly overrated. You’re okay as long as you don’t grow up. By all means grow old, but don’t mature. Remain childlike, retain wonder, the ability to be flabbergasted by something.
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Killing a guy and stealing his wife and child isn’t too nice a thing to do.
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I set out to be a cross between Lenny Bruce and Robert the Bruce.
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So, have you heard about the oyster who went to a disco and pulled a mussel?
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