Bob Monkhouse Quotes and Sayings - Page 1
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“Growing old is compulsory - growing up is optional.”
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“Personally, I don't think there's intelligent life on other planets. Why should other planets be any different from this one?”
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“I got a horse for my wife. I thought it was a fair swap.”
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“Silence is not only golden, it is seldom misquoted.”
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“My mother tried to kill me when I was a baby. She denied it. She said she thought the plastic bag would keep me fresh.”
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“I'm not saying my wife's a bad cook, but she uses a smoke alarm as a timer.”
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“Real happiness is when you marry a girl for love and find out later she has money”
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“The last time I was in Spain I got through six Jeffrey Archer novels. I must remember to take enough toilet paper next time.”
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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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“I was a born club comic. Radio and TV and stage were fine, but I found my real home in cabaret.”
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“My father was ruined by hard drink - he sat on an icicle.”
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“Marriage is an investment which pays dividends if you pay interest.”
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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 like to die like my old dad, peacefully in his sleep, not screaming like his passengers.”
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“I told them I wanted to be a comedian, and they laughed; I became a comedian, no one's laughing now”
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“If blind people wear sunglasses, why don't deaf people wear earmuffs?”
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“They all laughed when I said I wanted to be a comedian. Well, they're not laughing now.”
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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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“When the inventor of the drawing board messed things up, what did he go back to?”
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“It got up to 94 degrees today – that's pretty good at my age.”
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“I came home and found that my son was taking drugs - my very best ones too!”
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“My father only hit me once, but he used a Volvo.”
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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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“I can still enjoy sex at 74 - I live at 75, so it's no distance.”
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“With my wife it was sex, sex, sex...Yes, three times in 35 years.”
-- Bob Monkhouse
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