Spike Milligan Quotes

Spike Milligan
Irish Comedian
Born: Apr 16, 1918
Died: Feb 27, 2002
Father He Life Me Remember You
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A sure cure for seasickness is to sit under a tree. Spike Milligan
Sit Tree Sure Cure
My Father had a profound influence on me. He was a lunatic. Spike Milligan
Me Father Had He Influence Lunatic Profound
Money can't buy you happiness but it does bring you a more pleasant form of misery. Spike Milligan
Happiness Buy You Money Pleasant More Misery Does Form Bring
And God said, 'Let there be light' and there was light, but the Electricity Board said He would have to wait until Thursday to be connected. Spike Milligan
God Light Wait Would He Thursday Until Said Board Electricity Connected
I'm not afraid of dying I just don't want to be there when it happens. Spike Milligan
Just Afraid Want Dying Happens
I thought I'd begin by reading a poem by Shakespeare, but then I thought, why should I? He never reads any of mine. Spike Milligan
Thought Reading Mine Poem Shakespeare Never He Reads Begin Any Then Should Why
I have resigned from the human race. Look at the way we treat animals. Spike Milligan
Treat Animals Way Look Human Race Human Race Resigned
As I kept having episodes of depression, I realized that it was not a one-off: that I had, well, not a disease, really - more an illness. Spike Milligan
Depression Having More Had Well Disease Realized Really Episodes Illness Kept
I don't think of depression as contagious. Other depressed people challenge the idea - which can be very persistent and irritating - that there is something odd about you: that you are unique with regard to this wretched state. Spike Milligan
Depression You People Challenge Think Other State About Something Wretched Contagious Idea Odd Very Persistent Regard Irritating Which Depressed Unique
For ten years Caesar ruled with an iron hand. Then with a wooden foot, and finally with a piece of string. Spike Milligan
Finally String Ruled Ten Ten Years Foot Caesar Piece Years Hand Iron Wooden Then
I have the body of an eighteen year old. I keep it in the fridge. Spike Milligan
Health Old Year Year-Old Fridge Eighteen Body Keep
Are you going to come quietly, or do I have to use earplugs? Spike Milligan
You Come Quietly Going Use
Is there anything worn under the kilt? No, it's all in perfect working order. Spike Milligan
Worn Perfect Order Anything Working
I remember lying out in my bed and looking at the vast, quiet sky. Right up above my head, there were three stars in a row, and I remember thinking, 'Well, I'll have those three stars all my life, and wherever I am, they will be. They are my stars, and they belong to me.' Spike Milligan
Life Me Remember Sky Will Three My Life Looking Stars Thinking Lying Those All My Life Out Above Vast Head Well Bed Am Were Up Quiet Wherever Right Row Belong
The lunacy continues and has every chance of becoming a way of life unless we stop it soon. Men are getting so used to wars that the psychiatric wing of the RAMC are planning how to break the news to the men when the war is over. Spike Milligan
Life War News Men Every Unless Way Wing Soon Over Becoming How Getting Stop Psychiatric Break Used Planning Wars Lunacy Every Chance Chance
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. Spike Milligan
War Game Cheating Feeling Thinking Thirty Markers Say Alive Hoping Someone He Days Come Private Wooden Across Graves Cards Fourteen Number
I am afraid that, like Timon of Athens, I just cannot let go of my friendships. Spike Milligan
Athens Like Am Go Friendships Just Afraid Cannot Let Go
My father being a soldier, every time I saw soldiers marching - 'Well,' I thought, 'my father's that,' and these soldiers were always looking magnificent. And I thought they were powerful; they were all-powerful. I knew that they were an elite in India. Spike Milligan
Time Father Thought Looking Every Every Time Saw Soldier Soldiers India All-Powerful Magnificent Knew Powerful Well Always Were Being Marching Elite
It was implanted in me that I came from a different class - an elevated class. I was cushioned by servants. I don't remember doing anything for myself. I only played and went to school. Spike Milligan
Myself Me Class Remember School Only Doing Came Different Anything Cushioned Servants Elevated Played
Things began to improve when I went to Rangoon. To begin with, my father was promoted, which meant he was at home more. The matriarchal society was ended, and for the first time, I went to a boys' school. Spike Milligan
Time Home School Father First Society Promoted More He First Time Boy Began Begin Improve Ended Which Meant Things
You couldn't enclose people in institutions or hospitals or almshouses in the way the Victorians managed to do. India was too big. Seeing the suffering people was terrible, but I think I was more distraught at the needless cruelty to so many animals. Spike Milligan
You Suffering People Animals Cruelty Big Think Needless Too Way India Seeing More Hospitals Institutions Terrible Enclose Many
May 8th 1943. Deluge. The rain not only fell mainly on the plain in Spain; it also fell mainly on the back of the bloody neck, dripping down the spine into the socks where it came out of the lace-holes in the boots. Spike Milligan
Rain Down Back Out Boots Spine Only Dripping Deluge Mainly Fell Also Came Bloody May Where Spain Plain Neck Socks
I spent many years laughing at Harry Secombe's singing until somebody told me that it wasn't a joke. Spike Milligan
Me Somebody Joke Singing Harry Spent Laughing Until Years Many

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