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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

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
Pound notes are the best religion in the world.
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Funny Money World
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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Cost General Living Mind War
Scream at God if that’s the only thing that will get results.
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Prayer Results Scream
It is a good deed to forget a poor joke
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Deeds Forget Poor
When I’m talking to people I like to stop and quote myself. My quotes have a way of spicing up conversation.
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People Talking Way
A man is fortunate if he encounters living examples of vice, as well as of virtue, to inspire him.
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Inspire Men Role Models
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
Every cripple has his own way of walking.
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Cripples Walking Way
I only take a drink on two occasions – when I’m thirsty and when I’m not.
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Alcohol Drinking Two
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
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
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’m a Communist by day and a Catholic as soon as it gets dark.
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Catholic Communist Dark
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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Country Funny Irish People Spiritual

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