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Shakespeare said pretty well everything and what he left out, James Joyce, with a judge from meself, put in.

Brendan Behan

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
I ruined my health drinking to other people’s.
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Drinking People Ruined
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
You made one mistake. You married me.
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Cynical Married Mistake
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
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
An author’s first duty is to let down his country.
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Country Down Firsts Let
It is a good deed to forget a poor joke
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Deeds Forget Poor
I’m a Communist by day and a Catholic as soon as it gets dark.
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Catholic Communist Dark
Shakespeare said pretty well everything and what he left out, James Joyce, with a judge from meself, put in.
BRENDAN BEHAN

Judging Said Umpires
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
I only take a drink on two occasions – when I’m thirsty and when I’m not.
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Alcohol Drinking Two
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
That you, sister. May you be the mother of a bishop.
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Funny Humor Mother
Every cripple has his own way of walking.
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Cripples Walking Way
A man is fortunate if he encounters living examples of vice, as well as of virtue, to inspire him.
BRENDAN BEHAN

Inspire Men Role Models

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