I’m rather relaxed about death. From quite an early age I’ve regarded it as part of the deal, the unwritten guarantee that comes with your birth certificate.
BOB MONKHOUSEI’ll never stop working. I want to die in the saddle. A day is wasted for me if I haven’t done something even mildly creative.
More Bob Monkhouse Quotes
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With my wife it was sex, sex, sex…Yes, three times in 35 years.
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When the inventor of the drawing board messed things up, what did he go back to?
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I’ll never stop working. I want to die in the saddle. A day is wasted for me if I haven’t done something even mildly creative.
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I saw a specialist who asked me ‘Are you familiar with the phrase faecal impaction?’. I said I think I saw that one with Glenn Close and Michael Douglas.
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I’d never be unfaithful to my wife for the reason that I love my house very much.
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I can still enjoy sex at 74 – I live at 75, so it’s no distance.
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A miniature village in Bournemouth caught fire and the flames could be seen nearly three feet away.
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My father only hit me once, but he used a Volvo.
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Although I have always loved the noise of laughter, I really can’t fear the coming of quiet. As for funerals, I rather like them. Such nice things are always said about the deceased, I feel sad that they had to miss hearing it all by just a few days.
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Marriage is an investment which pays dividends if you pay interest.
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What do gardeners do when they retire?
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A tom cat hijacked a plane, stuck a pistol into the pilot’s ribs and demanded: ‘Take me to the canaries’.
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My wife said, ‘Can my mother come down for the weekend?’ So I said, ‘Why?’ And she said, ‘Well, she’s been up on the roof two weeks already.’
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Dulwich College takes me back after seventy years: My Mum must have written one hell of a sick note!
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I know I’m a sinner, but make me a winner!
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