It is a good deed to forget a poor joke
BRENDAN BEHANMany 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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I am married to Beatrice Salkeld, a painter. We have no children, except me.
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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.
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Whatever you hold in contempt is your jailer.
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There’s no bad publicity except an obituary.
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Failure at a task may be the result of having tackled it at the wrong time.
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You made one mistake. You married me.
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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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Scream at God if that’s the only thing that will get results.
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Other people have a nationality. The Irish and the Jews have a psychosis.
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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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That you, sister. May you be the mother of a bishop.
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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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Most horror movies are certainly that.
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Shakespeare said pretty well everything and what he left out, James Joyce, with a judge from meself, put in.
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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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