Fred Dibnah Quotes on Work
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'Steam engines don't answer back. You can belt them with a hammer and they say nowt.'
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'I'm just a bum who climbs chimneys.'
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'Anybody who destroys anything made of stone should be prosecuted. It is not all beautiful, but it took a man all day to make one stone.'
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'Steeplejacking's a bit of a spasmodic job, so you can play with your steam engine instead. It's a bit like being very rich.'
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'If you make one mistake, it's half a day out with the undertaker.'
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'The thing is nowadays, you'll have 20 men working, yet 60 men telling them 'You can't do that, you ain't got a tin hat on''.
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'That's Bolton's biggest chimney that... and I climbed it for a ten bob wager. Never did get the ten bob though.'
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Fred also previously received two honorary doctorates ..... They were both given by the relevant engineering faculties, but Fred always told people that they were for 'back street mechanicing'.
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'I've never fell off a big chimney. You'd only fall off one of them once.'