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Whatever you hold in contempt is your jailer.

Brendan Behan

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 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
I ruined my health drinking to other people’s.
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Drinking People Ruined
Pound notes are the best religion in the world.
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Funny Money World
That you, sister. May you be the mother of a bishop.
BRENDAN BEHAN

Funny Humor Mother
There’s no bad publicity except an obituary.
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Bad Obituary Publicity
Most horror movies are certainly that.
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Cinema Horror Most
He was born an Englishman and remained one for years.
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Born Country Irish People Years
I saw a notice that said “Drink Canada Dry” and I’ve just started.
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Beer Drinking Food
God forgive us-but most of us grew up to be the sort of men our mothers warned us against.
BRENDAN BEHAN

Family Forgive Men Mother
When two men fight over a woman it’s the fight they want, not the woman.
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Fighting Men Two Woman
If you accept your limitations you go beyond them.
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Accepting Country Irish Limitation People
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
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
Scream at God if that’s the only thing that will get results.
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Prayer Results Scream
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

Whatever you hold in contempt is your jailer.

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