Brendan Francis Behan Famous Quotes
"The most important things to do in the world are to get something to eat, something to drink and somebody to 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."
"I was court-martialled in my absence, and sentenced to death in my absence, so I said they could shoot me in my absence."
Courage is the ladder on which all the other virtues mount.
Brendan Francis Behan Quotations
"Male and female represent the two sides of the great radical dualism. But in fact they are perpetually passing into one another. Fluid hardens to solid, solid rushes to fluid. There is no wholly masculine man, no purely feminine woman."
Margaret Fuller
"Friendship is born at that moment when one person says to another What You, too Thought I was the only one."
Clive Staples Lewis
Be not astonished at new ideas for it is well known to you that a thing does not therefore cease to be true because it is not accepted by many.
Spinoza
"He that can live alone resembles the brute beast in nothing, the sage in much, and God in everything."
Baltasar Gracian
"Ah Christ, that it were possible For one short hour to see The souls we loved, that they might tell us What and where they be."
Alfred Lord Tennyson
"Spouses often point out each other's deficiencies. Instead, we should be each other's motivator. My husband touches my spirit, and I try my best to motivate him, too."
Kenneth Hartley Blanchard
"A true friend is the greatest of all blessings, and that which we take the least care of all to acquire."
Lee Iacocca
"In the consciousness of the truth he has perceived, man now sees everywhere only the awfulness or the absurdity of existence and loathing seizes him."
Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche
"I shot an arrow into the air, and it stuck."
Graffito
"Look wise, say nothing, and grunt. Speech was given to conceal thought."
William Osler