When two men fight over a woman it’s the fight they want, not the woman.
BRENDAN BEHANI ruined my health drinking to other people’s.
More Brendan Behan Quotes
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Whatever you hold in contempt is your jailer.
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I saw a notice that said “Drink Canada Dry” and I’ve just started.
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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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Ninety-seven saint days a year wouldn’t affect the theater, but two Yom Kippurs would ruin it.
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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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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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Critics are like eunuchs; they can tell you what to do, but they can’t do it themselves!
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That you, sister. May you be the mother of a bishop.
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There is no human situation so miserable that it cannot be made worse by the presence of a policeman.
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He was born an Englishman and remained one for years.
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I ruined my health drinking to other people’s.
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Nothing hurts more than the friendly letter that one never got around to writing.
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Pound notes are the best religion in the world.
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One drink is to many for me and a thousand not enough.
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God forgive us-but most of us grew up to be the sort of men our mothers warned us against.
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