A lot of people are too easily offended. Religious people, for instance. They’ve been offending other people for centuries.
BILLY CONNOLLYMarriage is a wonderful invention: then again, so is a bicycle repair kit.
More Billy Connolly Quotes
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I’d never consciously left home to see a zombie movie. They were fine by me, but I had no intention of ever being in one. But I’ve been learning more about it as I’ve been doing interviews. I
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Whenever I wear something expensive it looks stolen.
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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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I don’t have wild dogs chasing people with scripts away from my door. I get my share. I’ve done okay. But I usually do independent stuff because that’s mostly what I’m offered.
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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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Scotland has the only football team in the world that does a lap of disgrace.
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A well-balanced person has a drink in each hand.
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Fame is being asked to sign your autograph on the back of a cigarette packet.
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Tread gently on anyone who looks at you sideways.
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Now, the country is in a terrible state, and you’ve blamed it on a number of things: Unemployment rate, the value of the pound and all that… wrll, it’s because the national anthem is boring.
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Save the Trees? Trees are the main cause of Forest Fires!
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[To audience members who were arriving late] You haven’t missed a thing, I was just killing time ’til you got here.
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I hate all those weathermen, too, who tell you that rain is bad weather. There’s no such thing as bad weather, just the wrong clothing.
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So, have you heard about the oyster who went to a disco and pulled a mussel?
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Chic Murray once told me he fell in the street, and a woman said to him, “Did you fall?” He said, “No, I’m tryin’ to break a bar of chocolate in my back pocket.”
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