I saw a notice that said “Drink Canada Dry” and I’ve just started.
BRENDAN BEHANIt is a good deed to forget a poor joke
More Brendan Behan Quotes
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Other people have a nationality. The Irish and the Jews have a psychosis.
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One drink is to many for me and a thousand not enough.
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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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There’s no bad publicity except an obituary.
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I ruined my health drinking to other people’s.
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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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It is a good deed to forget a poor joke
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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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Critics are like eunuchs; they can tell you what to do, but they can’t do it themselves!
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Failure at a task may be the result of having tackled it at the wrong time.
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If you accept your limitations you go beyond them.
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The big difference between sex for money and sex for free is that sex for money usually costs a lot less.
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I’m a Communist by day and a Catholic as soon as it gets dark.
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There’s no one, no one, loves you like yourself.
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That you, sister. May you be the mother of a bishop.
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He was born an Englishman and remained one for years.
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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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Every cripple has his own way of walking.
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I’m a drinker with a writing problem.
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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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I am married to Beatrice Salkeld, a painter. We have no children, except me.
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Ninety-seven saint days a year wouldn’t affect the theater, but two Yom Kippurs would ruin it.
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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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You made one mistake. You married me.
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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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God forgive us-but most of us grew up to be the sort of men our mothers warned us against.
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