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Ninety-seven saint days a year wouldn’t affect the theater, but two Yom Kippurs would ruin it.

Brendan Behan

Other people have a nationality. The Irish and the Jews have a psychosis.
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Country Inspirational Irish People Psychosis
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
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
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
There’s no bad publicity except an obituary.
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Bad Obituary Publicity
When two men fight over a woman it’s the fight they want, not the woman.
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Fighting Men Two Woman
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
He was born an Englishman and remained one for years.
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Born Country Irish People Years
An author’s first duty is to let down his country.
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Country Down Firsts Let
I cannot imagine any crime worse than taking a life, can you? -It’d depend whose life.
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Capital Crime Imagine Punishment
A pedestrian ought to be legally allowed to toss at least one hand grenade at a motorist every day.
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Hands Life Modern Toss
That you, sister. May you be the mother of a bishop.
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Funny Humor Mother
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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Funny Marriage Sexy
If you accept your limitations you go beyond them.
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Accepting Country Irish Limitation People
There’s no one, no one, loves you like yourself.
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Like Love One Love You
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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Criticism Editors Funny
You made one mistake. You married me.
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Cynical Married Mistake
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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Beer Summer Winter
Pound notes are the best religion in the world.
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Funny Money World
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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Cost General Living Mind War
I ruined my health drinking to other people’s.
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Drinking People Ruined
Nothing hurts more than the friendly letter that one never got around to writing.
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Friendship Hurt Writing
Every cripple has his own way of walking.
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Cripples Walking Way
Failure at a task may be the result of having tackled it at the wrong time.
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May Results Tasks
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
God forgive us-but most of us grew up to be the sort of men our mothers warned us against.
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Family Forgive Men Mother
One drink is to many for me and a thousand not enough.
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Addiction Country Enough Irish People

Ninety-seven saint days a year wouldn’t affect the theater, but two Yom Kippurs would ruin it.

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