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.
BRENDAN BEHANA pedestrian ought to be legally allowed to toss at least one hand grenade at a motorist every day.
More Brendan Behan Quotes
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New York is my Lourdes, where I go for spiritual refreshment… a place where you’re least likely to be bitten by a wild goat.
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A pedestrian ought to be legally allowed to toss at least one hand grenade at a motorist every day.
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I cannot imagine any crime worse than taking a life, can you? -It’d depend whose life.
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That you, sister. May you be the mother of a bishop.
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A man is fortunate if he encounters living examples of vice, as well as of virtue, to inspire him.
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I’m a drinker with a writing problem.
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Every cripple has his own way of walking.
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You made one mistake. You married me.
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If you accept your limitations you go beyond them.
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Scream at God if that’s the only thing that will get results.
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I’m a Communist by day and a Catholic as soon as it gets dark.
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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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I saw a notice that said “Drink Canada Dry” and I’ve just started.
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Failure at a task may be the result of having tackled it at the wrong time.
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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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He was born an Englishman and remained one for years.
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One drink is to many for me and a thousand not enough.
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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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There’s no one, no one, loves you like yourself.
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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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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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Nothing hurts more than the friendly letter that one never got around to writing.
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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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What the hell difference does it make, left or right? There were good men lost on both sides.
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Pound notes are the best religion in the world.
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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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