All I ask is the chance to prove that money can't make me happy.
From Spike Milligan
I thought I'd begin by reading a poem by Shakespeare, but then I thought, why should I? He never reads any of mine.
Contraceptives should be used on every conceivable occasion.
A sure cure for seasickness is to sit under a tree.
I can speak Esperanto like a native.
I spent many years laughing at Harry Secombe's singing until somebody told me that it wasn't a joke.
The night before Tilbury, the Cordon Bleu gourmet dinner turned out Cordon Brown. Six out of ten to the chef for trying and ten out of ten to us for eating it.
We come across thirty or so hurried graves with makeshift wooden markers. 'Private Edwards, E.', a number, and that was all. Fourteen days ago he was alive, thinking feeling, hoping... If war was a game of cards, I'd say someone was cheating.
Is there anything worn under the kilt? No, it's all in perfect working order.
The experience of being in the Army changed my whole life; I never believed that an organization such as ours could ever go to war, leave alone win it. It was, as Yeats remarked of the Easter Rising, 'A terrible beauty.'
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