One drink is to many for me and a thousand not enough.
BRENDAN BEHANScream at God if that’s the only thing that will get results.
More Brendan Behan Quotes
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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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Failure at a task may be the result of having tackled it at the wrong time.
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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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I only take a drink on two occasions – when I’m thirsty and when I’m not.
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Nothing hurts more than the friendly letter that one never got around to writing.
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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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If you accept your limitations you go beyond them.
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Ninety-seven saint days a year wouldn’t affect the theater, but two Yom Kippurs would ruin it.
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I ruined my health drinking to other people’s.
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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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Pound notes are the best religion in the world.
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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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There’s no one, no one, loves you like yourself.
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It is a good deed to forget a poor joke
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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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