Brendan Behan Quotes

To drink is a small matter. To be thirsty is everything.

Whenever someone asks me if I want water with my Scotch, I say I'm thirsty, not dirty.

Zen martini: A martini with no vermouth at all. And no gin, either.

Remember, your body needs 6 to 8 glasses of fluid daily. Straight up or on the rocks.

I drink for the thirst to come.

I went out with a guy who once told me I didn’t need to drink to make myself more fun to be around. I told him, I’m drinking so that you’re more fun to be around.

I don't make mistakes. I make prophecies which immediately turn out to be wrong.

The best way to make the most serious point in the world is to be as unserious as possible.

Common sense and a sense of humor are the same thing, moving at different speeds. A sense of humor is just common sense, dancing.

I like to think my sense of humor is sort of smart and dumb at the same time. I like to work on multiple levels - smart and dumb, funny and sad, profound and mundane, cynical and hopeful.

Although it is generally known, I think it's about time to announce that I was born at a very early age.

Irony is one of my favorite aspects of life.

Irony is the hygiene of the mind.

Here's to alcohol: the cause of, and answer to, all of life's problems.

Comedy comes from confusion.

Life is tragic comedy, in a way. There is humor.

You shouldn't get too close to the truth, because then maybe you stop being funny.

There are two reasons for drinking: one is, when you are thirsty, to cure it; the other, when you are not thirsty, to prevent it.

The marvelous thing about a joke with a double meaning is that it can only mean one thing.

Humor is everywhere in that there's irony in just about anything a human does.

There are elements of irony in my work, of course.

I'm just trying to portray what I find ironic or humorous.

Life would be tragic if it weren't funny.

I always see the absurdity in most situations. It's my experience of how life works.

The love of truth lies at the root of much humor.