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There is no human situation so miserable that it cannot be made worse by the presence of a policeman.

Brendan Behan

Other people have a nationality. The Irish and the Jews have a psychosis.
BRENDAN BEHAN

Country Inspirational Irish People Psychosis
I ruined my health drinking to other people’s.
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Drinking People Ruined
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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Funny Marriage Sexy
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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Blessing Husband Marriage
God forgive us-but most of us grew up to be the sort of men our mothers warned us against.
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Family Forgive Men Mother
I saw a notice that said “Drink Canada Dry” and I’ve just started.
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Beer Drinking Food
I cannot imagine any crime worse than taking a life, can you? -It’d depend whose life.
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Capital Crime Imagine Punishment
There’s no bad publicity except an obituary.
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Bad Obituary Publicity
It is a good deed to forget a poor joke
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Deeds Forget Poor
Many a man has decided to stay alive not because of the will to live but because of the determination not to give assorted surviving bastards the satisfaction of his death.
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Determination Men Suicide
New York is my Lourdes, where I go for spiritual refreshment… a place where you’re least likely to be bitten by a wild goat.
BRENDAN BEHAN

Country Funny Irish People Spiritual
Nothing hurts more than the friendly letter that one never got around to writing.
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Friendship Hurt Writing
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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Country Dublin Irish Life People
Every cripple has his own way of walking.
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Cripples Walking Way
A man is fortunate if he encounters living examples of vice, as well as of virtue, to inspire him.
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Inspire Men Role Models
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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Beer Summer Winter

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