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A man is fortunate if he encounters living examples of vice, as well as of virtue, to inspire him.

Brendan Behan

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
Failure at a task may be the result of having tackled it at the wrong time.
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May Results Tasks
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
He was born an Englishman and remained one for years.
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Born Country Irish People Years
Scream at God if that’s the only thing that will get results.
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Prayer Results Scream
Most horror movies are certainly that.
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Cinema Horror Most
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
One drink is to many for me and a thousand not enough.
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Addiction Country Enough Irish People
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
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
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’m a drinker with a writing problem.
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Drinkers Problem Writing
I’m a Communist by day and a Catholic as soon as it gets dark.
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Catholic Communist Dark
Whatever you hold in contempt is your jailer.
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Contempt Jailer Prison
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 only take a drink on two occasions – when I’m thirsty and when I’m not.
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Alcohol Drinking Two

A man is fortunate if he encounters living examples of vice, as well as of virtue, to inspire him.

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