If you accept your limitations you go beyond them.
BRENDAN BEHANPound notes are the best religion in the world.
More Brendan Behan Quotes
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When two men fight over a woman it’s the fight they want, not the woman.
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I have a total irreverence for anything connected with society except that which makes the roads safer, the beer stronger, the food cheaper and the old men and old women warmer in the winter and happier in the summer.
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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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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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Nothing hurts more than the friendly letter that one never got around to writing.
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I saw a notice that said “Drink Canada Dry” and I’ve just started.
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I’m a Communist by day and a Catholic as soon as it gets dark.
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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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I cannot imagine any crime worse than taking a life, can you? -It’d depend whose life.
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One drink is to many for me and a thousand not enough.
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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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It is a good deed to forget a poor joke
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You made one mistake. You married me.
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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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A man is fortunate if he encounters living examples of vice, as well as of virtue, to inspire him.
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That you, sister. May you be the mother of a bishop.
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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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Most horror movies are certainly that.
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Failure at a task may be the result of having tackled it at the wrong time.
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I ruined my health drinking to other people’s.
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There’s no one, no one, loves you like yourself.
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Scream at God if that’s the only thing that will get results.
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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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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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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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