When two men fight over a woman it’s the fight they want, not the woman.
BRENDAN BEHANIf you accept your limitations you go beyond them.
More Brendan Behan Quotes
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One drink is to many for me and a thousand not enough.
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There’s no bad publicity except an obituary.
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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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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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I’m a Communist by day and a Catholic as soon as it gets dark.
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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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There is no human situation so miserable that it cannot be made worse by the presence of a policeman.
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If you accept your limitations you go beyond them.
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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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Ninety-seven saint days a year wouldn’t affect the theater, but two Yom Kippurs would ruin it.
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I’m a drinker with a writing problem.
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I saw a notice that said “Drink Canada Dry” and I’ve just started.
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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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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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