When two men fight over a woman it’s the fight they want, not the woman.
BRENDAN BEHANIn 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.
More Brendan Behan Quotes
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Every cripple has his own way of walking.
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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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I saw a notice that said “Drink Canada Dry” and I’ve just started.
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Scream at God if that’s the only thing that will get results.
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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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If you accept your limitations you go beyond them.
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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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What the hell difference does it make, left or right? There were good men lost on both sides.
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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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There’s no one, no one, loves you like yourself.
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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’m a Communist by day and a Catholic as soon as it gets dark.
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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 general and a bit of shooting makes you forget your troubles … it takes your mind off the cost of living.
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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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