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That you, sister. May you be the mother of a bishop.

Brendan Behan

Shakespeare said pretty well everything and what he left out, James Joyce, with a judge from meself, put in.
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Judging Said Umpires
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
I’m a Communist by day and a Catholic as soon as it gets dark.
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Catholic Communist Dark
There’s no bad publicity except an obituary.
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Bad Obituary Publicity
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
Whatever you hold in contempt is your jailer.
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Contempt Jailer Prison
Critics are like eunuchs in a harem; they know how it’s done, they’ve seen it done every day, but they’re unable to do it themselves.
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Criticism Editors Funny
He was born an Englishman and remained one for years.
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Born Country Irish People Years
If you accept your limitations you go beyond them.
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Accepting Country Irish Limitation People
When I’m talking to people I like to stop and quote myself. My quotes have a way of spicing up conversation.
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People Talking Way
Other people have a nationality. The Irish and the Jews have a psychosis.
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Country Inspirational Irish People Psychosis
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
Pound notes are the best religion in the world.
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Funny Money World
Nothing hurts more than the friendly letter that one never got around to writing.
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Friendship Hurt Writing
When two men fight over a woman it’s the fight they want, not the woman.
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Fighting Men Two Woman
A general and a bit of shooting makes you forget your troubles … it takes your mind off the cost of living.
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Cost General Living Mind War

That you, sister. May you be the mother of a bishop.

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