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Whatever you hold in contempt is your jailer.

Brendan Behan

I’m a Communist by day and a Catholic as soon as it gets dark.
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Catholic Communist Dark
Scream at God if that’s the only thing that will get results.
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Prayer Results Scream
Critics are like eunuchs; they can tell you what to do, but they can’t do it themselves!
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Critics Eunuchs Themselves
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
I ruined my health drinking to other people’s.
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Drinking People Ruined
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
Failure at a task may be the result of having tackled it at the wrong time.
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May Results Tasks
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
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 am married to Beatrice Salkeld, a painter. We have no children, except me.
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Children Married Painter
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
There’s no bad publicity except an obituary.
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Bad Obituary Publicity
Pound notes are the best religion in the world.
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Funny Money World
A pedestrian ought to be legally allowed to toss at least one hand grenade at a motorist every day.
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Hands Life Modern Toss
When two men fight over a woman it’s the fight they want, not the woman.
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Fighting Men Two Woman
Nothing hurts more than the friendly letter that one never got around to writing.
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Friendship Hurt Writing

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