Tread gently on anyone who looks at you sideways.
BILLY CONNOLLYThe more you know the less the better.
More Billy Connolly Quotes
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Scottish-Americans tell you that if you want to identify tartans, it’s easy – you simply look under the kilt, and if it’s a quarter-pounder, you know it’s a McDonald’s.
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My parents used to take me to the pet department and tell me it was a zoo.
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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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Whenever I wear something expensive it looks stolen.
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Fame is being asked to sign your autograph on the back of a cigarette packet.
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Oh aye…my Father would thrash me every now and then. He’d talk while he did it too! He’d hit me and shout, ‘Have ye had enough?’ Had enough? Whit kind of question is that? ‘Why, Father, would another kick in the balls be out of the question???’
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Don’t tell me how to do my job. I don’t come to your workplace and tell you how to sweep up.
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I don’t know why I should have to learn Algebra… I’m never likely to go there.
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Behind the proscenium arch, you can’t always hear what people in the audience are saying.
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I have been made redundant before and it is a terrible blow; redundant is a rotten word because it makes you think you are useless.
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I’ve been a poser for f–ing years. I say, pose your arse off. You know, have a laugh.
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People who are willing to get off their arse to search the entire room for the TV remote because they refuse to walk to the TV and change the channel manually.
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I’m not going to throw away the hand of friendship to suit 100 Trotskyites in Glasgow.
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When people say “it’s always the last place you look”. Of course it is. Why would you keep looking after you’ve found it?
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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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