If you accept your limitations you go beyond them.
BRENDAN BEHANThat you, sister. May you be the mother of a bishop.
More Brendan Behan Quotes
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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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He was born an Englishman and remained one for years.
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Nothing hurts more than the friendly letter that one never got around to writing.
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I am married to Beatrice Salkeld, a painter. We have no children, except me.
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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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Every cripple has his own way of walking.
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Whatever you hold in contempt is your jailer.
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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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There’s no bad publicity except an obituary.
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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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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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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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Failure at a task may be the result of having tackled it at the wrong time.
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Most horror movies are certainly that.
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I only take a drink on two occasions – when I’m thirsty and when I’m not.
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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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I ruined my health drinking to other people’s.
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When two men fight over a woman it’s the fight they want, not the woman.
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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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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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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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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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You made one mistake. You married me.
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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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Ninety-seven saint days a year wouldn’t affect the theater, but two Yom Kippurs would ruin it.
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