If a robin redbreast in a cage Spike Milligan More Quotes by Spike Milligan More Quotes From Spike Milligan If you kill me, I promise you - you will never take me alive. Spike Milligan kill-mealivepromise Only on the third class tourist class passengers' deck was it a sultry overcast morning, but then if you do things on the cheap you must expect these things. Spike Milligan touristsclassmorning It was a perfect marrige. She didn`t want to and he couldn`t Spike Milligan funny-relationshipperfectwant I'm a hero wid coward's legs, I'm a hero from the waist up. Spike Milligan legscowardhero Money can't buy friends, but it can get you a better class of enemy. 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 alonebeautywarlife My father was a soldier, which meant that he was a warrior, which meant that he was important. My mother rode a horse and sang in the Governor-General's band, so that made her important as well. Spike Milligan horsesoldiermotherfather 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 thinkyousufferingpeople I'm not afraid of dying I just don't want to be there when it happens. Spike Milligan justdyingwanthappens 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 challengeyoudepressionpeople We reach a secondary road and - here comes the bonus - we pass the Temple of Neptune and Cerene, at Paestum, both looking beautiful in the sunlight. Strung from the Doric columns are lines of soldiers' washing. At last they had been put to practical use. If only the ancient Greeks had known. Spike Milligan templeroadlookingbeautiful 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 chancemenwarlife Money couldn't buy friends, but you got a better class of enemy. Spike Milligan betteryoufriendsmoney Thankfully, we didn't stop at Malta. I think Malta was thankful, too. Spike Milligan i-thinkstopthinkthankful I can't stand being late. I try to be professional. I try not to let people down. But people let me down. That's why I don't rely on anyone to call me. That's why I have clocks as well as people. I have to be able to call myself; it's the only way to be sure. Spike Milligan myselfmepeopleway I had stopped going to church the moment I joined the Regiment. No more could my mother nag me into God's presence. Spike Milligan memomentgodmother 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 socksdownbackrain 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 gamewarcheatingthinking Apéritif: French for a set of dentures. Spike Milligan
