Spike Milligan

Spike Milligan

"My Father had a profound influence on me. He was a lunatic."
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"My Father had a profound influence on me. He was a lunatic."
Spike Milligan
"When I get depressed, I try to get something for the terrible sadness that comes over me and create something in terms of poetry."
Spike Milligan
"Money couldn't buy friends, but you got a better class of enemy."
Spike Milligan
"I can speak Esperanto like a native."
Spike Milligan
"How long was I in the army? Five foot eleven."
Spike Milligan
"A sure cure for seasickness is to sit under a tree."
Spike Milligan
"It was a perfect marriage. She didn't want to and he couldn't."
Spike Milligan
"I have the body of an eighteen year old. I keep it in the fridge."
Spike Milligan
"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
"Thankfully, we didn't stop at Malta. I think Malta was thankful, too."
Spike Milligan
"All I ask is the chance to prove that money can't make me happy."
Spike Milligan
"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."
Spike Milligan
"Money can't buy you happiness but it does bring you a more pleasant form of misery."
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."
Spike Milligan
"Money can't buy you happiness but it does bring you a more pleasant form of misery."
Spike Milligan
"Money can't buy friends but you can get a better class of enemy."
Spike Milligan
"With a roof over his head he had ceased to work, living off his [war] pension and his wits, both hopelessly inadequate."
Spike Milligan
"R. I. P. Tom Conlon O'Rourke. Not Dead, just Sleeping."
Spike Milligan
"The clock in the church tower said 4.32, as it had done for three hundred years. It was right once a day and that was better than no clock at all."
Spike Milligan
"On the Ning Nang Nong Where the Cows go Bong!And the Monkeys all say Boo!Theres a Nang Nong Ning Where the trees go Ping!And the tea pots Jibber Jabber Joo On the Nong Ning Nang All the Mice go Clang!And you just cant catch em when they do!So its Ning Nang Nong!Cows go Bong!Nong Nang Ning!Trees go Ping!Nong Ning Nang!The mice go Clang!What a noisy place to belong,Is the Ning Nang Ning Nang Nong!"
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