Quotes by Les Dawson

"I used to sell furniture for a living. The trouble was, it was my own."

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"My mother-in-law said, 'One day I will dance on your grave.' I said 'I hope you do; I will be buried at sea.'"

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"Marriage is an institution and that's where a couple finish up."

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"I've got a friend who is a lion tamer. He used to be a school teacher till he lost his nerve."

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"In awe, I watched the waxing moon ride across the zenith of the heavens like an ambered chariot towards the ebony void of infinite space wherein the tethered belts of Jupiter and Mars hang, for ever festooned in their orbital majesty. And as I looked at all this I thought... I must put a roof on this toilet."

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