A general and a bit of shooting makes you forget your troubles … it takes your mind off the cost of living.
BRENDAN BEHANThe big difference between sex for money and sex for free is that sex for money usually costs a lot less.
More Brendan Behan Quotes
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God forgive us-but most of us grew up to be the sort of men our mothers warned us against.
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Failure at a task may be the result of having tackled it at the wrong time.
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I was court-martialled in my absence, and sentenced to death in my absence, so I said they could shoot me in my absence.
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When two men fight over a woman it’s the fight they want, not the woman.
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I have a total irreverence for anything connected with society except that which makes the roads safer, the beer stronger, the food cheaper and the old men and old women warmer in the winter and happier in the summer.
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The big difference between sex for money and sex for free is that sex for money usually costs a lot less.
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If you accept your limitations you go beyond them.
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One drink is to many for me and a thousand not enough.
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Whatever you hold in contempt is your jailer.
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A man is fortunate if he encounters living examples of vice, as well as of virtue, to inspire him.
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I am married to Beatrice Salkeld, a painter. We have no children, except me.
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There’s no bad publicity except an obituary.
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A pedestrian ought to be legally allowed to toss at least one hand grenade at a motorist every day.
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Critics are like eunuchs; they can tell you what to do, but they can’t do it themselves!
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Shakespeare said pretty well everything and what he left out, James Joyce, with a judge from meself, put in.
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