Secombe's Quotes

#1. My wife always knows exactly," he said. There was a bit of tobacco on his wet lip. "But that's probably because she only lets me do it twice a year, Valentine's and my birthday, so it's not hard to figure." He stepped out the door and then turned to say, "I got two kids born in

Alice McDermott

#2. If I could define enlightenment briefly I would say it is 'the quiet acceptance of what is'.

Wayne Dyer

#3. Hey, you're going to hurt someone if you keep doing that!!!

Harry Secombe

#4. Always have there been great numbers of individuals who were very much eager to fight for good causes. Always there were these, but then there were even greater numbers of trendies who would then become wholly and completely misguided in the efforts.

Criss Jami

#5. I suffer fools gladly because I am one of them.

Harry Secombe

#6. I spent many years laughing at Harry Secombe's singing until somebody told me that it wasn't a joke.

Spike Milligan

#7. The map is not the territory.

Alfred Korzybski

#8. To Harry Secombe: I hope you die first as I don't want you singing at my funeral.

Spike Milligan

#9. Common man has at long last got himself so far out of gear with nature and his environment that he is beginning to see the shape of extinction, whether he recognizes it as such or not.

Philip Wylie

#10. My voice is not so much 'bel canto' as 'can belto'.

Harry Secombe

#11. It appears to me that if one wants to make progress in mathematics, one should study the masters and not the pupils.

Niels Henrik Abel

#12. When you look at yourself from a universal standpoint, something inside always reminds or informs you that there are bigger and better things to worry about.

Albert Einstein

#13. Anyone who, for 25 years, has built a career on such tenuous foundations as a high-pitched giggle, a raspberry and a sprinkling of top 'Cs' needs all the friends he can get.

Harry Secombe