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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

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
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
Other people have a nationality. The Irish and the Jews have a psychosis.
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Country Inspirational Irish People Psychosis
Scream at God if that’s the only thing that will get results.
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Prayer Results Scream
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
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
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
Every cripple has his own way of walking.
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Cripples Walking Way
I saw a notice that said “Drink Canada Dry” and I’ve just started.
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Beer Drinking Food
There is no human situation so miserable that it cannot be made worse by the presence of a policeman.
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Made Miserable Situation
I’m a Communist by day and a Catholic as soon as it gets dark.
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Catholic Communist Dark
You made one mistake. You married me.
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Cynical Married Mistake
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
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
Whatever you hold in contempt is your jailer.
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Contempt Jailer Prison
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

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