I saw a notice that said “Drink Canada Dry” and I’ve just started.
BRENDAN BEHANCritics are like eunuchs; they can tell you what to do, but they can’t do it themselves!
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I ruined my health drinking to other people’s.
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Whatever you hold in contempt is your jailer.
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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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One drink is to many for me and a thousand not enough.
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Every cripple has his own way of walking.
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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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What the hell difference does it make, left or right? There were good men lost on both sides.
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That you, sister. May you be the mother of a bishop.
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I’m a drinker with a writing problem.
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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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Critics are like eunuchs; they can tell you what to do, but they can’t do it themselves!
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An author’s first duty is to let down his country.
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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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He was born an Englishman and remained one for years.
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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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Failure at a task may be the result of having tackled it at the wrong time.
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There’s no one, no one, loves you like yourself.
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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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If you accept your limitations you go beyond them.
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Other people have a nationality. The Irish and the Jews have a psychosis.
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There’s no bad publicity except an obituary.
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It is a good deed to forget a poor joke
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I’m a Communist by day and a Catholic as soon as it gets dark.
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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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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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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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