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A general and a bit of shooting makes you forget your troubles … it takes your mind off the cost of living.

Brendan Behan

One drink is to many for me and a thousand not enough.
BRENDAN BEHAN

Addiction Country Enough Irish People
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
Failure at a task may be the result of having tackled it at the wrong time.
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May Results Tasks
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
I am married to Beatrice Salkeld, a painter. We have no children, except me.
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Children Married Painter
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
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
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
Scream at God if that’s the only thing that will get results.
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Prayer Results Scream
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
It is a good deed to forget a poor joke
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Deeds Forget Poor
Whatever you hold in contempt is your jailer.
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Contempt Jailer Prison
Pound notes are the best religion in the world.
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Funny Money World
There’s no bad publicity except an obituary.
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Bad Obituary Publicity
You made one mistake. You married me.
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Cynical Married Mistake
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.
BRENDAN BEHAN

Beer Summer Winter

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