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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.

Brendan Behan

Whatever you hold in contempt is your jailer.
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Contempt Jailer Prison
If you accept your limitations you go beyond them.
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Accepting Country Irish Limitation People
You made one mistake. You married me.
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Cynical Married Mistake
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
There is no human situation so miserable that it cannot be made worse by the presence of a policeman.
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Made Miserable Situation
That you, sister. May you be the mother of a bishop.
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Funny Humor Mother
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
In a society which really supported marriage the wife would be encouraged to go to the office and make love to her husband on the company’s time and with its blessing.
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Blessing Husband Marriage
Other people have a nationality. The Irish and the Jews have a psychosis.
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Country Inspirational Irish People Psychosis
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
Pound notes are the best religion in the world.
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Funny Money World
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.
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Judging Said Umpires
There’s no bad publicity except an obituary.
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Bad Obituary Publicity
He was born an Englishman and remained one for years.
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Born Country Irish People Years
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

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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