Top 60 Norman Wisdom Sayings
#1. I'd love to spend more time on the Isle of Man. I love the anonymity of putting on a boiler suit and going down to buy parts for the compressor. And Norman Wisdom's a neighbour; I salute him occasionally.
John Rhys-Davies
#2. There is no point in trying to remember your dreams ... There is only the unspeakable joy of eavesdropping on your spirit, catching tiny glimpses of its independent life, resting for a moment in its wisdom, puzzling, laughing sometimes, over what it's up to, what it makes of you.
Marsha Norman
#3. Don't get me wrong: I'm overjoyed with my career to date. But perhaps I could have done more. Mostly, I just did whatever the directors told me to do.
Norman Wisdom
#4. You know I've got a chum, a smashing mate, he's got a dog with no legs, and he calls it a cigarette. It's true, yeah, because at nighttime he has to take it out for a drag.
Norman Wisdom
#5. I've got one idea I want to do for a film and you know I just enjoy myself doing bits and pieces.
Norman Wisdom
#6. What is all wisdom save a collection of platitudes?
Norman Douglas
#7. I was born in very sorry circumstances. Both of my parents were very sorry.
Norman Wisdom
#8. My only phobia is untidiness. My hair has to be neatly kept; my shoes are always clean. Everything has to be in a straight line, in its place.
Norman Wisdom
#9. Well if I was going to describe my audience, it's going to take longer than you'd ever expect, hundreds of years in fact, because there's many of them, all over the world.
Norman Wisdom
#10. I used to first go on to entertain an audience. But now I go, and this is really true - I go on to have fun with a crowd of my chums.
Norman Wisdom
#11. Don't duck the most difficult problems. That just ensures that the hardest part will be left when you are most tired. Get the big one done - it's downhill from then on.
Norman Vincent Peale
#12. All my boyhood, all I ever wanted was to be loved.
Norman Wisdom
#13. Don't defy the diagnosis, try to defy the verdict.
Norman Cousins
#14. But no, I've just been very lucky. But I've worked hard, and the harder you work, the luckier you seem to get.
Norman Wisdom
#15. I've done seven shows at the Palladium - long running shows I'm talking about.
Norman Wisdom
#16. We live in the midst of the greatest scientific civilization in the history of the world. But the greatest wisdom walking our streets is not in any laboratory scientist, but the wisdom of Jesus Christ.
Norman Vincent Peale
#17. You see I'm semi-retired now and don't work all the time, only most of it!
Norman Wisdom
#18. The sublimity of wisdom is to do those things living, which are to be desired when dying.
Norman Douglas
#19. Wisdom consists of the anticipation of consequences.
Norman Cousins
#20. I believe in physical comedy, because that reaches out most to people.
Norman Wisdom
#21. Challenges lead to Growth,
Grow matures ones daily living,
Living a good life expedites ... Wisdom
Vernetta Norman
#22. It was smashing working with Jerry Desmonde, he was a very nice chap.
Norman Wisdom
#24. As you get older three things happen. The first is your memory goes, and I can't remember the other two.
Norman Wisdom
#25. Years ago, there was a variety theatre in every British town, and people paid to go down and see it. Comedy was the main part of the theatre, and comedians earned a living by being funny. Now you have comedy in television instead. Comedians now have to be funny within a play.
Norman Wisdom
#26. I've been making people laugh for 40 years, so I know how important it is!
Norman Wisdom
#27. The secret of life is not in what happens to you. It is in what you do with it that happens to you.
Norman Vincent Peale
#28. 'Swan,' by Mary Oliver. Poems and prose. Reading from this book is as if visiting a very wise friend. There is wisdom and welcoming kindness on every page.
Jessye Norman
#29. I must admit I like to muck around a bit; I always have.
Norman Wisdom
#30. I no longer gave a sick dog's drop for the wisdom, the reliability and the authority of the public's literary mind, those creeps and old ladies of vested reviewing.
Norman Mailer
#31. The pine stays green in winter ... wisdom in hardship.
Norman Douglas
#32. I like consistency. If you've had a childhood like mine, you want some things you can rely on to stay the same.
Norman Wisdom
#33. I can never tell a joke, I've always found it easier to just fall over.
Norman Wisdom
#34. Infantile people complain and say that God is cruel or that there is no God. Mature people, however, know that there is wisdom and sometimes an eternal kindness in God's refusals.
Norman Vincent Peale
#35. My comedy is for children from three to 93. You do need a slightly childish sense of humour and if you haven't got that, it's very sad.
Norman Wisdom
#36. It was absolutely thrilling to meet Laurel and Hardy, they were so nice.
Norman Wisdom
#37. I was born in London, and went to school in Scotland - I used to be dead tired when I got home at night.
Norman Wisdom
#38. I'm still constantly thinking of ideas. I don't feel 90. I think I'm about 12.
Norman Wisdom
#39. There are people who like just ordinary comedy fun, and making mistakes - which I do easily - and then there are people who like the falling over.
Norman Wisdom
#40. I play drums, clarinet, saxophone, trumpet, french horn, piano.
Norman Wisdom
#41. I was in the band as a boy and was taught music and learned to compose.
Norman Wisdom
#42. God never made anyone else exactly like you, and he never will again. Thank him for yourself and then for all the rest of his glorious handiwork.
Norman Vincent Peale
#43. I, as a human, do not become the power or love or wisdom of God; I merely contain Him who is all these, and everything.
Norman Grubb
#44. My father used to be away for months at a time, and he'd never leave any money for food, so my brother and I had to go out and nick it.
Norman Wisdom
#45. At my age, the radiation will probably do me good.
Norman Wisdom
#47. So I cast my lot with Him-not the one who claimed wisdom, Confucius; or the one who claimed enlightenment, Buddha; or the one who claimed to be a prophet, Muhammad, but with the one who claimed to be God in human flesh. The one who declared, 'Before Abraham was born, I am'-and proved it.
Norman Geisler
#48. What I like doing most is making children laugh.
Norman Wisdom
#49. In fact, one was so booked out we went from March and were to go till November, but the pantomime was booked so they transferred the show to the Prince of Wales Theatre because it was so packed out, and it ran on from there.
Norman Wisdom
#50. I've an idea for doing a Situation Comedy myself but its always difficult to get people to listen to you because they like to put their own ideas forward.
Norman Wisdom
#52. The contradictory remarks of politicians are forgotten; the more asinine predictions of pundits are buried with mercy.
Norman Mailer
#53. I have a folder where I keep all the articles the critics have written about me. It makes me feel good.
Norman Wisdom
#54. I've always had a sense of humour, and I still do, so I just want to go on performing as long as I can. It's as simple as that.
Norman Wisdom
#55. Such is life and life is such and after all it isn't much. First a cradle. Then a hearse. It might have been better, but it could have been worse.
Norman Wisdom
#56. I've been extremely lucky having been in the army when I was a boy of fourteen.
Norman Wisdom
#57. You are greater than anything that can happen to you. In a big and terrifying crisis, people find within themselves a power and a strength and also a wisdom they had no idea they possessed.
Norman Vincent Peale
#58. When you're as famous as I am, stories take on a life of their own.
Norman Wisdom
#59. Most of my comedies were low on budgets - certainly by American standards.
Norman Wisdom
#60. I don't know nothing about communism. But I know the Albanians loved me. Same reason as anyone else loves me. Because I made them laugh.
Norman Wisdom
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