A man is fortunate if he encounters living examples of vice, as well as of virtue, to inspire him.
BRENDAN BEHANWhen two men fight over a woman it’s the fight they want, not the woman.
More Brendan Behan Quotes
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Nothing hurts more than the friendly letter that one never got around to writing.
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What the hell difference does it make, left or right? There were good men lost on both sides.
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Every cripple has his own way of walking.
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If you accept your limitations you go beyond them.
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I ruined my health drinking to other people’s.
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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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Other people have a nationality. The Irish and the Jews have a psychosis.
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Scream at God if that’s the only thing that will get results.
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I’m a Communist by day and a Catholic as soon as it gets dark.
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Whatever you hold in contempt is your jailer.
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There is no human situation so miserable that it cannot be made worse by the presence of a policeman.
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In a society which really supported marriage the wife would be encouraged to go to the office and make love to her husband on the company’s time and with its blessing.
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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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There’s no one, no one, loves you like yourself.
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