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When I’m talking to people I like to stop and quote myself. My quotes have a way of spicing up conversation.

Brendan Behan

Failure at a task may be the result of having tackled it at the wrong time.
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May Results Tasks
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
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
Nothing hurts more than the friendly letter that one never got around to writing.
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Friendship Hurt Writing
Scream at God if that’s the only thing that will get results.
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Prayer Results Scream
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
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
Most horror movies are certainly that.
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Cinema Horror Most
You made one mistake. You married me.
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Cynical Married Mistake
I saw a notice that said “Drink Canada Dry” and I’ve just started.
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Beer Drinking Food
I ruined my health drinking to other people’s.
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Drinking People Ruined
Ninety-seven saint days a year wouldn’t affect the theater, but two Yom Kippurs would ruin it.
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Saint Theatre Two Years
What the hell difference does it make, left or right? There were good men lost on both sides.
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Differences History Men
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
It is a good deed to forget a poor joke
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Deeds Forget Poor
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

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