Irish - Comedian | April 16, 1918 - February 27, 2002
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
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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.
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Unbeknown to me, my manager, under my very nose (in a crouching position) has all these years been secretly compiling a book from my correspondence. I often wondered what she was doing in my office. She never did a stroke of work for me. All the time, I have been working for her.
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How long was I in the army? Five foot eleven.
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I thought I'd begin by reading a poem by Shakespeare, but then I thought, why should I? He never reads any of mine.
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One important thing I recall about India was that it was quiet. It was never noisy in the way that life was noisy in London.
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I'm a hero with coward's legs.
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It's all in the mind, you know.
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For ten years Caesar ruled with an iron hand. Then with a wooden foot, and finally with a piece of string.
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Money couldn't buy friends, but you got a better class of enemy.
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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.'
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Thankfully, we didn't stop at Malta. I think Malta was thankful, too.
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