Bob Monkhouse Quotes

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• They all laughed when I said I wanted to be a comedian. Well, they're not laughing now.

  Bob Monkhouse

  Funny, Clever, Smart

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• I'd like to die like my old dad, peacefully in his sleep, not screaming like his passengers.

  Bob Monkhouse

  Dad, Sleep, Passengers

  "Bob Monkhouse" by Dennis Barker, www.theguardian.com. December 30, 2003.

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• I got a horse for my wife. I thought it was a fair swap.

  Bob Monkhouse

  Horse, Funny Relationship, Wife

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• Growing old is compulsory - growing up is optional.

  Bob Monkhouse

  Funny, Growing Up, Humor

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• I'm not saying my wife's a bad cook, but she uses a smoke alarm as a timer.

  Bob Monkhouse

  Funny, Wife, Alarms

  They're not laughing now ..., www.theguardian.com. December 29, 2003.

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• It got up to 94 degrees today – that's pretty good at my age.

  Bob Monkhouse

  Funny, Humor, Age

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• When the inventor of the drawing board messed things up, what did he go back to?

  Bob Monkhouse

  Drawing, Boards, Inventor

  "They're not laughing now". www.theguardian.com. December 29, 2003.

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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?

  Bob Monkhouse

  Funny, Life, Humor

  "They're not laughing now". www.theguardian.com. December 29, 2003.

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• With my wife it was sex, sex, sex...Yes, three times in 35 years.

  Bob Monkhouse

  Sex, Years, Wife

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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.

  Bob Monkhouse

  Funny, Mom, Mother

  "They're not laughing now". www.theguardian.com. December 29, 2003.

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• If blind people wear sunglasses, why don't deaf people wear earmuffs?

  Bob Monkhouse

  People, Sunglasses, Questions And Answers

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• Silence is not only golden, it is seldom misquoted.

  Bob Monkhouse

  Funny, Humor, Silence

  Bob Monkhouse (1991). “The complete speaker's handbook”

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• My father only hit me once, but he used a Volvo.

  Bob Monkhouse

  Funny, Father, Humor

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• A tom cat hijacked a plane, stuck a pistol into the pilot's ribs and demanded: 'Take me to the canaries'.

  Bob Monkhouse

  Funny, Cat, Humor

  "They're not laughing now". www.theguardian.com. December 29, 2003.

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• Real happiness is when you marry a girl for love and find out later she has money.

  Bob Monkhouse

  Girl, Real, Real Happiness

  "They're not laughing now". www.theguardian.com. December 29, 2003.

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• I can remember when safe sex meant a padded headboard.

  Bob Monkhouse

  Funny, Sex, Humor

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• I can still enjoy sex at 74 - I live at 75, so it's no distance.

  Bob Monkhouse

  Funny, Sex, Distance

  "They're not laughing now". www.theguardian.com. December 29, 2003.

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• Marriage is an investment which pays dividends if you pay interest.

  Bob Monkhouse

  Funny Marriage, Pay, Investment

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• What do gardeners do when they retire?

  Bob Monkhouse

  Funny, Retirement, Humor

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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.'

  Bob Monkhouse

  Love, Funny, Mother

  "They're not laughing now". www.theguardian.com. December 29, 2003.

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• A miniature village in Bournemouth caught fire and the flames could be seen nearly three feet away.

  Bob Monkhouse

  Funny, Humor, Feet

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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.

  Bob Monkhouse

  Laughter, Nice, Missing

  "Obituary". web.archive.org. December 30, 2003.

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• Where do the homeless have 90 per cent of their accidents?

  Bob Monkhouse

  Funny, Humor, Homeless

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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.

  Bob Monkhouse

  Funny, Archer, Humor

  "They're not laughing now". www.theguardian.com. December 29, 2003.

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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

  Bob Monkhouse

  Laughing, Comedian, Wanted

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