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Failure at a task may be the result of having tackled it at the wrong time.

Brendan Behan

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
I’m a Communist by day and a Catholic as soon as it gets dark.
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Catholic Communist Dark
He was born an Englishman and remained one for years.
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Born Country Irish People Years
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
Whatever you hold in contempt is your jailer.
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Contempt Jailer Prison
There’s no bad publicity except an obituary.
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Bad Obituary Publicity
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
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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Determination Men Suicide
An author’s first duty is to let down his country.
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Country Down Firsts Let
Other people have a nationality. The Irish and the Jews have a psychosis.
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Country Inspirational Irish People Psychosis
You made one mistake. You married me.
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Cynical Married Mistake
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
Most horror movies are certainly that.
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Cinema Horror Most
Ninety-seven saint days a year wouldn’t affect the theater, but two Yom Kippurs would ruin it.
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Saint Theatre Two Years
It is a good deed to forget a poor joke
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Deeds Forget Poor

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