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It is a good deed to forget a poor joke

Brendan Behan

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
That you, sister. May you be the mother of a bishop.
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Funny Humor Mother
I’m a Communist by day and a Catholic as soon as it gets dark.
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Catholic Communist Dark
It is a good deed to forget a poor joke
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Deeds Forget Poor
You made one mistake. You married me.
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Cynical Married Mistake
When two men fight over a woman it’s the fight they want, not the woman.
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Fighting Men Two Woman
Most horror movies are certainly that.
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Cinema Horror Most
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
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
Whatever you hold in contempt is your jailer.
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Contempt Jailer Prison
I am married to Beatrice Salkeld, a painter. We have no children, except me.
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Children Married Painter
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
An author’s first duty is to let down his country.
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Country Down Firsts Let
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
Failure at a task may be the result of having tackled it at the wrong time.
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May Results Tasks

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