"Sometimes you have to shovel S#!T to get to the good stuff". - Tony the bricklayer.

Not really a quote however....
On the February 27, 2002, the world lost one of its most influential comedians.
Spike Milligan first came to fame when he teamed up with Peter Sellers, Harry Secombe and Michael Bentine to form the highly esteemed Goon Show.
He has "I told you I was ill" engraved on his tombstone at Winchelsea, East Sussex.
It is, however, written in Gaelic.

Gabe

I'm old enough to remember Spike Milligan fondly and we need to add one of his quotes to this thread:
[quote]I'm not afraid of dying I just don't want to be there when it happens. [/quote]

As for the tombstone, the Chichester Diocese refused to allow the english epitaph but a compromise was reached with the Irish translation, "D�irt m� leat go raibh m� breoite", and additionally in English, "Love, light, peace" according to this BBC report
Mulligan gets Last Laugh on Grave

Charm, That quote is originally Woody Allens and there is some confusion on that as newspapers often quoted Spike as saying it. Here is an interesting article that touches on it: http://jim-murdoch.blogspot.com/2009/10/memories-of-spike-part-one.html

What I find kind of spooky is I just read that quote a few days ago, thought it very funny but decided to post the Dalai Lama quotes instead. The quote was credited to Woody Allen on the site I was reading so it confused me when I read your post and decided to do a little digging. Funny stuff.

Spike was a huge influence on Monty Python, who I grew up on, and they openly attribute their take on comedy to him...which is the only reason I'd heard of him actually. I'm a huge British Comedy buff as I love MP, Red Dwarf and avidly watch the BBC.

So with that I'm going to post a Red Dwarf quote today:

"The time for talking is over. Now call it extreme if you like, but I propose we hit it hard, and we hit it fast, with a major, and I mean major, leaflet campaign. " -Rimmer

Eric

Good research catch. Interesting article. Reminds me of the way that Benjamin Franklin's great quote about wine being proof that God loves us being universally misquoted as being about beer.
charm

Thanks Charm, as I said, I thought it spooky to see that quote...great minds think alike I guess!

Here are a few Mark Twain quotes I love...

"The fear of death follows from the fear of life. A man who lives fully is prepared to die at any time."


"Against the assault of laughter nothing can stand."

&

"It's not the size of the dog in the fight, it's the size of the fight in the dog"

Glad of the controversy about who said what Charm and Eric

Spike Milligian was a frequent visitor to Australia and Woy Woy is just over an hour north of Sydney.

�Spike Milligan's parents moved to Woy Woy in the early 50's.
Spike would often visit to have a break from fame and do some writing.
He died in February 2002, aged 83 years old, and will also be remembered for his life long battle with depression.�

And now I have borrowed some quotes that appealed from the signature of 2 of our OCF members....
"I will surely die one day, but I am not going to do it each day until then."
"Life's challenges are not supposed to paralyse you; they're supposed to help you discover who you are."

Wow Gabe...those are great I love them!

Charm, Franklin was often misquoted. The other one famously misquoted is "A penny saved is a penny earned." When he actually said "A penny saved is two pence dear; a pin a day's a groat a year."

Franklin is my hero, flawed and a womanizer...but oddly cool. I read his autobiography every year and always find something new and insightful.

"If at first you don't succeed, you'll get a lot of free advice from folks who didn't succeed either." unkown.

This made me laugh and where it really doesn't deal with fear I thought I'd share.