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Wisdom isn't an old guy on top of a mountain in a loin cloth. It isn't an answer. It's a question.

Billy Connolly

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Billy Connolly
Age: 81
Born: 1942
Born: November 24
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Glasgow
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I love Scotland and I speak about it a lot, so people think I'm desperate to go back. They just take it upon themselves to say I'm going back, but I'm not. I'd rather concentrate on becoming a citizen of the world.
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There are two seasons in Scotland: June and Winter.
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Learn to feel sorry for music because, although it is the international language, it has no swear words.
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Sometimes there's a tackiness about Route 66 that out-tacks any tackiness I've ever seen anywhere else. And the Meramec Caverns are the pinnacle of that tack.
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If you want to lose a bit of weight, don't eat anything out of a bucket.
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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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Where do you go when you die? The same place you were before you were born nowhere! It's over!
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I don't believe in angels, no. But I do have a wee parking angel. It's on my dashboard and you wind it up. The wings flap and it's supposed to give you a parking space. It's worked so far.
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Try to catch a trout and experience the glorious feeling of letting it go and seeing it swimming away.
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I think my securities far outweigh my insecurities. I am not nearly as afraid of myself and my imagination as I used to be.
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I have been made redundant before and it is a terrible blow redundant is a rotten word because it makes you think you are useless.
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Why are there no windows in the toilets on aeroplanes? To protect you from the most dedicated perverts on the planet, hanging off the wing to get a peep?
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The world needs more Edwin Morgans, people who can take the language and swing it round their heads and don't care what you think.
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Ally MacLeod thinks that tactics are a new kind of mint.
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Fame is being asked to sign your autograph on the back of a cigarette packet.
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,000 people in Hampden Park. Of course they're all Scottish. Because no one else goes there. The English have an unwritten rule: they only go to places they might get back from.
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Paddy was in the delivery room when the midwife handed him a black baby. Is this yours? she asked probably said Paddy she burns everything else
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It seems to me that Islam and Christianity and Judaism all have the same god, and he's telling them all different things.
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I've always been fascinated by the difference between the jokes you can tell your friends but you can't tell to an audience. There's a fine line you have to tread because you don't know who is out there in the auditorium. A lot of people are too easily offended.
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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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